Nigeria’s Electoral Commission has announced Bola Tinubu, a candidate from the ruling party, as the new president of Nigeria. It comes three days after observers criticized the election for having many problems with logistics, violence that kept people from voting, and claims of a misconduct on the side of the opposition parties.
In terms of hard numbers, the APC got 8,794,726 valid votes, while the PDP got 6,984,520 and the LP got 6,101.533. The New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) got 1,496,687 valid votes, and the 14 other candidates got a total of 666.298.
Meanwhile the opposition parties have call for new elections.
In one of the closest elections since the end of military control, he won with just over 36% of the vote. He came in second in his own state but swept the rest of the country, topping six-time presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar (age 76) and third-party candidate Peter Obi (age 61), who had gained the backing of many people who were unhappy with the current system in politics.
Mr. Tinubu now has the challenging task of resolving the country’s severe economic and security issues. Throughout the last eight years, the country has experienced two recessions, a significant increase in youth unemployment, inflation, and a rapid decline in the value of the naira. Ransom kidnappings have spread throughout the country, and armed gangs operate in the north, center, and southeast.
Over the course of decades, the former two-term governor of Lagos has become a controversial yet towering figure in Nigerian politics. Wealthy power broker who was instrumental in former president Muhammadu Buhari’s 2015 election victory.
While in Lagos, the president-elect enjoyed both widespread support and harsh criticism of his ongoing hold on power. Tinubu is both one of the most prominent politicians in the country and a mystery, with rumors and speculation circulating about him regarding his age, health, and riches.
During his time as governor of the state from 1999 to 2007, this former accountant and senator is widely praised for bringing in massive investment and making Lagos one of the largest economies in Africa.
But his critics say that he is to blame for Lagos’s problems, such as its old infrastructure, lack of affordable housing, and inequality. He has said for a long time that he made a lot of money as an accountant at Deloitte, but the company says he never worked there.
Source – Tru News Report
