President Bola Tinubu on Sunday clinched the All Progressives Congress presidential ticket for the 2027 general election, polling 10,999,162 votes against his sole challenger, Stanley Osifo, who scored 16,503 in the nationwide direct primaries conducted across all 8,809 wards on Saturday, May 23.
The Returning Officer and Chairman of the Presidential Primary Elections Committee, Pius Anyim, announced the final figures and made the declaration after the nationwide collation of results at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre, Abuja.
The exercise ended the scheduled primaries of the APC, ahead of the 2027 elections.
The APC kicked off its 2027 primary elections with the House of Representatives exercise, followed by the Senate primaries on Monday, May 18, state Houses of Assembly primaries on Wednesday, May 20, governorship primaries on Thursday, May 21, and the presidential primary on Saturday, May 23.
Speaking at the presidential primary declaration on Sunday, Anyim stated that total registered voters stood at 12,643,30 11,069,756 were accredited, while 11,015,665 votes were cast.
Tinubu, thereafter, received the party’s certificate of return and flag from the party chairman, Prof Nentawe Yilwatda, in a ceremony attended by APC governors, members of the National Executive Committee, the National Working Committee, lawmakers and party stalwarts.