'How Tinubu lost but won' - Report shows how Nigerian president's party could have been defeated

A new report has shown that the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the declared winner of the 2023 presidential elections could have been defeated.

According to the report published by TheCable, all of Tinubu’s major opponents were former members of the main opposition party, PDP, and polled a combined 14,582,740 votes, which was far above the votes Tinubu polled to become President-elect.

One can recall that the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Tinubu polled a total of 8,794,726 votes to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People's Party (NNPP).

Atiku, the former Vice President polled 6,984,520 votes to come second, while Obi scored 6,101,533 votes.

The fourth position went to Kwankwaso, who got 1,496,687 votes. The APC scored 37% of the vote across the country compared to PDP’s 29% and LP’s 25%.

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ICYMI: How Tinubu lost but won the 2023 presidential election. #TheCableIndex pic.twitter.com/ZcoHmvbNQI

— TheCableIndex (@thecableindex) May 25, 2023