The All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate in Saturday 25 presidential election, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has received his certificate of return as president at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja.
The Independent National Electoral Commission presented the certificate to the President-Elect. The certificate was presented to Tinubu by the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu..
His running mate Kashim Shettima also got his certificate of return at the event.
The presentation came a few hours after Tinubu was declared the winner of the poll, garnering 8,794,726 votes to defeat his closest rival, Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, who scored 6,984,520.
The 70-year-old former Lagos Governor came out top in 12 of Nigeria’s 36 states and secured significant numbers in several other states to claim the highest number of votes
Abubakar, 76, who has now run for president six times, got 6,984,520 votes.