JUST IN: Tinubu, Shettima receive Certificate of Return

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu has presented the Certificate of Return to President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima.

They received the document in the presence of their wives.

The presentation came a few hours after Tinubu was declared the winner of the Saturday, February 25 poll, garnering 8,794,726 votes to defeat his closest rival, Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, who scored 6,984,520.

Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) flagbearer, took his first shot at the presidency for the first time in a keenly contested race.

The 70-year-old former Lagos Governor came out tops 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, while the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, who, in less than a year, galvanised young voters in a manner some have described as unprecedented finished the race with 6,101,533.