Nigeria election results 2023

Chioma Agwuegbo was one of tens of thousands of young Nigerians who took to the streets in October 2020 to demand an end to police brutality in Nigeria. The mass movement, which became known as #EndSARS, called for the disbanding of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad after a video of a man getting killed by the police went viral. As Agwuegbo protested in the capital city of Abuja, where she heads a women’s rights non-profit called TeachHerNG, she recalls police firing live rounds and tear gas at her. Agwuegbo says she was “heartbroken” by the government’s response to the protests, which compelled her to think about how to “take back the country” this February, as Nigeria on Saturday held the most competitive, free, and fair election since the end of military rule in 1999. On Tuesday, Bola Tinubu from the ruling All Progressives Congress Party was declared the winner. But the ex-governor of Lagos, the country’s largest city, won with a slim margin against his opponents—Atiku Abubakar, from the main opposition People’s Democratic Party, and Peter Obi from the smaller Labour Party, a third-party candidate who many younger Nigerians had pinned their hopes on. His opponents have since expressed their discontent and are expected to challenge the results in court. To Agwuegbo, who has monitored elections in Nigeria since 2011, Tinubu’s win is a disappointment. “The strategy and structure were theft and violence, and rotten pipes cannot produce sparkling water,” she said, referring to...

• Share This Article • Share this page on Twitter • Share this page on Facebook • Share this page on LinkedIn • Email a link to this page Washington, DC– Today, the While there were incremental improvements in election administration, advances in results transparency, increased competitiveness in the presidential race, quality engagement of youth, and overall optimism generated by the enactment of the Electoral Act 2022, the 2023 elections in Nigeria fell short of citizens’ legitimate and reasonable expectations. Significant logistical, technological, and communications failures by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), divisive rhetoric by political parties, political violence, regional disparities in electoral integrity, instances of vote manipulation, and marginalization of key populations marred the electoral process and disenfranchised voters negatively impacted key aspects of the election process. The elections also saw the lowest turnout for national contests in Nigeria’s modern democratic history with only 27 percent of registered voters participating. “The incoming government, lawmakers, INEC, and political parties will need to show genuine and renewed dedication to improving electoral and democratic processes, fighting corruption, and providing Nigerian citizens with responsive and trusted institutions. Nigerians must undertake collective actions to combat disenchantment, address lingering political grievances, and restore faith in elections and de...

•Want perpetrators of election violence, manipulation punished •Insist on public naming of govt, party officials who aided fraud Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja Two United States organisations, the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI) yesterday released a joint final report on the 2023 general elections in Nigeria, saying that the polls were marred by logistical failures. The Joint International Election Observation Mission (IEOM) explained that while there were incremental improvements in election administration, increased competitiveness in the presidential race, quality engagement of youth, among others, the 2023 elections in Nigeria fell short of citizens’ legitimate and reasonable expectations. “Significant logistical, technological, and communications failures by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), divisive rhetoric by political parties, political violence, regional disparities in electoral integrity, instances of vote manipulation, and marginalisation of key populations marred the electoral process and disenfranchised voters negatively impacted on key aspects of the election process,” the Us-sponsored Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) stated. The elections, the NDI and IRI stated, also saw the lowest turnout for national contests in Nigeria’s modern democratic history with only 27 per cent of registered voters participating. The joint observer mission urged the incoming government, lawmakers, INEC, and polit...

See results for 2023 Presidential Election Results By States (Declared by INEC) State APC PDP LP NNPP EkitI 201,494 89,554 11,397 264 Kwara 263,572 136,909 31,166 3,142 Osun 343,945 354,366 23,283 713 Ondo 369,924 115,463 44,405 930 OGun 341,554 123,831 85.829 2,200 OYO 449,884 182,977 99,110 4,095 Yobe 151,459 198,567 2,406 18,270 enugu 4,772 15,749 428,640 1,808 LAGOS 572,606 75,750 582,454 8, 442 Gombe 146,977 319,123 26, 160 10,520 ADAMAWA 182,881 417,611 105,648 8,006 KATSINA 482,283 489,045 6,376 69,386 jIGAWA 421,390 386,587 1,889 98,234 NASARAWA 172,922 147,093 191,361 12,715 NIGER 375, 183 284, 898 80,452 21,836 BENUE 310,468 130,081 30,8372 4,740 FCT 90,902 74,194 281,717 4,517 AKWA ibom 160,620 214,012 132,683 7,796 Edo 144,471 89,585 331,163 2,743 ABIA 8,914 22,676 327,095 1,239 kogi 240,751 145,104 56,217 4238 Bauchi 316,694 426,607 27,373 72,103 PLATEAU 307,195 243,808 466,272 8,869 BAYELSA 42, 572 68,818 49,975 540 KADUNA 399,293 554,360 294,494 92969 KEBBI 248,088 285,175 10,682 5,038 kano 517,341 131,716 28,513 997,279 zamfara 298,396 193,978 1,660 4,044 sokoto 285,444 288,679 6,568 1,300 cROSS river 130,520 95,425 179,917 1,644 delta 90,183 161,600 341,866 3,122 EBONYI 42,402 13,503 259,738 2,661 ANAMBRA 5,111 9,036 584,621 1,967 Taraba 135,165 189,017 146,315 12,818 Borno 252,282 190,921 7205 4626 RIVERS 231,591 88,468 175,071 1,322 IMO 66406 30,234 360,495 1,552 AgGregate 8,794,726 6,984,520 6,101,533 1,496,671

The former Governor of Akwa Ibom has subsequently been sworn in. The election was carried out in a secret ballot system, where Senators were called out according to their states to cast their votes. Similarly, Senator Jibrin Barau has emerged as Deputy Senate President and has been sworn in. Meanwhile, the same process is ongoing at the House of Representatives, where the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the House are yet to be announced. The open ballot system was adopted.