Tinubu floors Osifo with 10.99 million votes to emerge APC 2027 Presidential candidate

Ebun Emmanuel – May 24, 2026

President Bola Tinubu has defeated Stanley Osifo in the All Progressives Congress(APC) presidential primaries to clinch the party’s ticket for the 2027 general election.

Tinubu polled 10.99 million votes to defeat his only rival who scored 16,504 in APC presidential primaries held in 8,809 wards across the country.

Osifo did not get any votes in 21 out of the 37 states and also in the FCT.

This emerged from the ongoing national collation of the presidential primaries results at the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre in Abuja.

APC governors in 31 states and other top brass of APC who are coordinators and collation officers in their states presented the results of the direct primaries to the presidential Primary Election Committee chaired by former Senate President Pius Anyim.

While President Tinubu dominated all the 36 states including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), winning 100% votes in most of them, Osifo scored 5,248 in Niger, while in Kano-2,675, Lagos -1,186, Abia- 1,007, Oyo -929, Benue -779 and Nasarawa with 768 votes.

State by State results for President Tinubu:

Bayelsa – 227,192

Osun – 100,888

Oyo – 142,754

Anambra – 43,034

FCT – 36,103

Kano – 500,852

Katsina – 467,003

Abia – 161,005

Kogi – 197,370

Delta – 407,646

Ebonyi – 207,579

Jigawa – 206,520

Plateau – 241,720

Kwara – 310,990

Edo – 121,098

Nasarawa – 285,436

Niger – 175,487

Borno – 414,988

Enugu – 383,382

Kebbi – 292,972

Kaduna – 618,914

Bauchi – 156,541

Ondo – 181,996

Yobe – 253,804

Rivers – 280,082

Akwa Ibom – 389,197

Benue – 374,787

Imo – 582,960

Ekiti – 85,340

Lagos – 814,988

Zamfara – 321,579

Ogun – 322,485

Sokoto – 301,000

Cross River – 113,911

Taraba – 183,698

Gombe – 450,517

Adamawa – 644,149.