Opposition parties rejected the results as the product of a faulty process, which suffered multiple technical difficulties due to INEC’s introduction of new technologies, and on Tuesday called for the resignation of its president, Mahmood Yakubu.
Tinubu asked voters to elect him for his record during his two terms as Lagos state governor at the turn of the century, during which he reduced violent crime, improved the city’s traffic jams and cleaned up litter.
However, the 70-year-old sometimes came across as frail in public, slurring his words and answering cliché questions, and skipping various campaign events, leaving some wondering just how effective he would be.
Obi’s campaign appealed to younger and more educated urban voters fed up with the corrupt politics of the past, the two parties that have represented him since the end of military rule in 1999 and the elders who have tended to dominate them.
The opposition People’s Democratic Party, the Labor Party and a smaller party rejected the results.
“The results being declared in the national tallying center have been largely manipulated and manipulated and do not reflect the wishes of Nigerians expressed at the ballot box,” they said in a joint statement.