President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has clinched the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress APC for the 2027 general elections, with a landslide victory over his only challenger, Mr. Stanley Osifo, in the recently conducted primary election of the party.
Tinubu polled a total of 10,999, 162 votes, while Mr Osifo secured only 16,503 votes nationwide, recording zero or negligible votes in several states.
Out of a total of 12,643,306 registered voters in the party, 11,069,756 members were accredited for the exercise, while 11,015,665 eventually cast their votes during the nationwide direct primary.
The results revealed that Mr Osifo did not secure a single vote in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Delta, Kogi, Ebonyi, Kwara, Borno, Kebbi, Enugu, Kaduna, Ondo, Yobe, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Ekiti, Ogun, Sokoto, Taraba, Cross River, Gombe, Oyo and Osun states.
A summary of the voting pattern in some of the states showed that in the FCT, all 36,103 votes cast went to Mr Tinubu, while Mr Osifo scored zero.
In Abia State, Mr Osifo surprisingly scored 1,007 votes out of the 162,012 total votes cast, with the remainder going to the president, while in Anambra State, Mr Tinubu polled 43,034 votes against Mr Osifo’s 383 votes.
Adamawa returned 644,149 votes for Mr Tinubu against Mr Osifo’s 195 votes while Akwa Ibom gave the incumbent 389,197 votes without any vote for his opponent. Benue State delivered 374,787 votes for Mr Tinubu and 779 votes for Mr Osifo,
Bayelsa returned 277,192 votes for him and five votes for Mr Osifo. Borno State delivered all 414,988 votes cast to Mr Tinubu, while while Bauchi recorded 156,541 votes for the president and 2,650 for Mr Osifo.
Cross River State produced 113,911 votes for Mr Tinubu with none for Mr Osifo and in Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori declared that all 407,646 votes cast in the state were won by President Tinubu.
In Ebonyi State, the president secured all 207, 579 votes cast in the state, while Edo, Mr. Osifo’s state recorded 121,098 votes for the president and gave him just one vote.
Enugu State returned all 383,382 accredited votes to the president. Ekiti also gave Mr Tinubu all 85,340 votes cast, while Gombe delivered 450,517 votes entirely to the president. Imo returned 582,960 votes for the president and 103 votes for Osifo.
In Jigawa State, all 206, 520 votes cast also went to President Tinubu, as was also recorded in Kogi State with all 197,370 votes cast in the state going to the president, with none for his challenger.
Kano State recorded one of the highest figures for Mr Osifo, who secured 2,675 votes against Asiwaju Tinubu’s 503,527 votes and Kaduna delivered 618,914 votes to the incumbent and zero for Osifo.
Kebbi returned 292,972 votes for Mr Tinubu with zero for his challenger, while in Kwara State, Mr Tinubu polled 310,990 votes while Mr Osifo secured none.
In President Tinubu’s Lagos State, Mr Osifo received 1,186 votes, while the President polled 814,988 votes.
Nasarawa state produced 285,436 votes for the president against 768 votes for his challenger, while in Niger State, Osifo polled his highest votes in the primary election, with 5,248 votes and Tinubu secured 175,487 votes.
Ogun State returned 322,485 votes solely for the president. Ondo delivered 181,996 votes to Mr Tinubu and none to Mr Osifo. Osun State delivered all 100,880 votes cast to the president, while in Oyo State, Mr Tinubu polled 142,754 votes and Mr Osifo secured 929 votes.
Plateau State returned 241,720 votes for Mr Tinubu and 303 votes for Mr Osifo, while Rivers State recorded 280,082 votes for Mr Tinubu and zero for the businessman,
Sokoto gave Mr Tinubu all 301,000 votes cast, while Taraba returned 183,698 votes exclusively for him.
Yobe returned 253,804 votes exclusively for the president while Zamfara recorded 321,579 votes for the incumbent and 42 for Mr Osifo,
Mr Osifo had emerged as the only challenger to the president after purchasing the APC’s N100 million presidential nomination form.
The businessman had vowed to challenge the incumbent for the party’s ticket after reported moves to adopt a consensus arrangement failed to materialise.
Below is the breakdown of President Tinubu’s 10.9 million votes in the 2027 APC presidential primaries
- Lagos: 814,988
- Adamawa: 644,149
- Kaduna: 618,914
- Imo: 582,960
- Kano: 500,852
- Katsina: 467,003
- Gombe: 450,517
- Borno: 414,988
- Delta: 407,646
- Akwa Ibom: 389,197
- Enugu: 383,382
- Benue: 374,787
- Plateau: 241,720
- Bayelsa: 227,192
- Ebonyi: 207,579
- Jigawa: 206,520
- Kogi: 197,370
- Taraba: 183,698
- Ondo: 181,996
- Niger: 175,487
- Abia: 161,005
- Bauchi: 156,541
- Ogun: 322,485
- Zamfara: 321,579
- Kwara: 310,990
- Sokoto: 301,000
- Kebbi: 292,972
- Nasarawa: 285,436
- Rivers: 280,082
- Yobe: 253,804
- Cross River: 113,911
- Edo: 121,098
- Oyo: 142,754
- Osun: 100,888
- Ekiti: 85,340
- Anambra: 43,034
- FCT: 36,103