Live updates of Nigeria’s presidential election result collation. We’re live with the result of Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election result announced by INEC.
13:10
INEC has suspended the collation of results from other states until further notice. The agency is waiting for more states to present their results.
13:06
Presidential Election Result in Ondo State:
APC – 369,924
LP – 47,350
NNPP – 930
PDP – 115,463
12:55
Presidential Election Result in Osun State:
APC – 343,945
LP – 23,283
NNPP – 713
PDP – 354,366
12:32
Presidential Election Result in Kwara State:
APC – 263,572
LP – 31,116
NNPP – 3,101
PDP – 136,909
12:15
Multiple party agents have rejected INEC’s result of the presidential election in Ekiti. They claimed there was overvoting in the state but chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, said the parties are using inaccurate figures not presented by INEC.
12:06
We’re now live at the national collation centre in Abuja where we’ll get the results of all the states. Stick with us.
11:37
Presidential Election Result in Lagos
APC – 572,606
LP – 582,454
NNPP – 8,442
PDP – 75,750
Pulse Nigeria
10:48
Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) has beaten Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State with 582,454 votes.
10:48
Lagos results after 19 LGAs officially announced:
APC – 530,699
LP – 559,064
NNPP – 8,033
PDP – 72,232
10:29
Lagos results after 18 LGAs officially announced:
APC – 510,096
LP – 520,205
NNPP – 7,571
PDP – 68,531
10:20
Good morning. Collation has resumed in Lagos State and the result of Mushin, which was rejected earlier this morning, will be re-presented.
03:47
The collation of votes has been suspended in Lagos until 9 am on Monday. See you in the morning.
03:47
Lagos results after 17 LGAs officially announced:
APC – 447,187
LP – 448,878
NNPP – 6,870
PDP – 60,330
01:45
Bola Tinubu won in Ogun State with 308,839 votes. Peter Obi finished second with 272,269 votes, and Atiku finished third with 43,627 votes.
01:10
Lagos results after 12 LGAs officially announced:
Tinubu – 308,839
Peter Obi – 272,269
Atiku- 43,627
Kwankwaso – 5,008
01:00
Lagos results after 11 LGAs officially announced:
APC – 280,960
LP – 243,333
NNPP – 4,532
PDP – 40,178
23:56
Other states have also been presenting their results at their collation centres.
23:56
We’ve now resumed collation in Lagos State after a break that took more than two hours.
22:07
The Labour Party has rejected the results announced for Badagry and Lagos Mainland LGAs. The party’s agent claimed the result in Badagry didn’t tally with what the party collated from polling unit to polling unit, and also claimed its supporters were disenfranchised in Lagos Mainland.
21:04
Lagos results after eight LGAs officially announced:
APC – 215,442
LP – 118,844
NNPP – 2,919
PDP – 30,368
20:54
Lagos results after six LGAs officially announced:
APC – 153,971
LP – 94,618
PDP – 19,861
NNPP – 1,253
19:12
But the collation of results by local government areas is ongoing in Lagos at the state’s collation centre. We’ll update you on how that proceeds.
19:12
INEC has once again postponed the collation of results until tomorrow, Monday, February 27, 2023.
18:30
Ekiti State
APC 201,494
LP – 11,397
PDP – 89,554
NNPP – 264
18:30
Ekiti State
18:30
Ekiti State
18:30
We’re going to be starting the collation of results in Lagos, where the officials are about to announce the number of votes scored by candidates in all the local government areas.
13:29
INEC has postponed the collation of the result of the 2023 presidential election till 6 pm today.
1:00
We’re ready to go! INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has commenced his opening statement before the collation of results starts.
12:00
INEC has postponed the commencement of the collation of results to 1 pm.
08:32
For a winner to emerge, he must win the highest number of votes and also win at least 25% of the votes in at least 24 states. If this doesn’t happen, there will be a runoff election involving only two candidates – the one who wins the most votes, and the one who wins the highest number of votes in the highest number of states.
Pulse Nigeria
08:25
Out of the 93.5 million Nigerians on the register of voters, 87.2 million Nigerians were available to vote with their PVCs, but fingers remain crossed on the turnout rate of the February 25, 2023 election.
08:15
There are 18 presidential candidates on the ballot, but the three frontrunners with strong chances of victory are Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives’ Congress (APC) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP). Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) is also expected to cause an upset, but not enough to win.
08:15
The commission will announce a state-by-state breakdown of the result, so stick with us for all the timely updates on how Nigerians have voted for the country’s next president.
08:15
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will open the National Collation Centre in Abuja by 12 pm today, Sunday, February 26, 2023.
07:46
Welcome to Pulse Nigeria’s coverage of the result collation of the 2023 presidential election.
