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Akinwande Soji-Ojo
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that it will present the Certificates of Return to president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and vice president-elect, Sen Kashim Shettima, on Wednesday.
INEC declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Tinubu, as the president-elect in the early hours of Wednesday.
Tinubu, a former Lagos State governor, was declared the president-elect after he polled 8,794,726 votes to win the 2023 presidential election.
INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced Tinubu as the winner at the National Collation Centre in Abuja.
Declaring Tinubu as the winner, the INEC boss said: “That Tinubu Bola Ahmed of the APC, having satisfied the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and returned elected.”
After announcing Tinubu as the winner, Yakubu explained that the commission would be presenting the Certificates of Return to Tinubu and Shettima at the International Collation Centre, Abuja, by 3pm.
The move, he said, would allow the commission to have ample time to adequately plan for the governorship election billed for March 11.
He said though Tinubu and Shettima would be getting their Certificates of Return, Senators and House of Representatives members-elect would have to wait a bit.
Yakubu said the commission would issue a statement later today on when the ceremony for Senators and House of Representatives members-elect will hold.