The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, has set up committees to meet with his aggrieved challengers in the February 25, 2023, presidential election for reconciliation.

Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, who is a member of the committees, disclosed this via a statement issued on Wednesday by his Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde.

Akeredolu revealed that a Committee of Elders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) would soon meet with the presidential candidates to appeal to them and work with the President-elect.

“The President-elect has set up committees to meet with the gentlemen who contested in the election for us to start the healing process.

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“I belong to one of the committees. We are going to meet them and appeal to them so that we can work together,” Governor Akeredolu stated.

The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Wednesday, announced that Tinubu, a former Lagos State Governor and the candidate of the APC, won the election with the majority of votes cast across Nigeria.

Tinubu polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat fellow contenders – Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 6,984,520 votes, Labour Party’s Peter Obi had 6,101,533 votes to come third, and candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, who polled 1,496,687 votes to place a distant fourth.

Of the 36 states and FCT, Tinubu, Obi, and Atiku won 12 states each while Kwankwaso won only Kano State.

The 12 states won by Tinubu were Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Kwara, Benue, Rivers, Borno, Zamfara, Jigawa, Ondo, Kogi, and Niger.

Atiku of the PDP won Taraba, Osun, Akwa Ibom, Adamawa, Kaduna, Sokoto, Yobe, Bayelsa, Kebbi, Bauchi, Gombe, and Katsina states.

Obi won Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, Anambra, Abia, Delta, Edo, FCT, Plateau, Nasarawa, Lagos, and Cross River states.

The Star