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INEC: Tinubu’ll receive Certificate of Return by 3p.m.

The President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is to receive his Certificate of Return on Wednesday at 3p.m. in Abuja.

Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, stated this while declaring Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election.

Yakubu said a Certificate of Return for the president-elect and vice president-elect Kashim Shettima would be issued on Wednesday at 3p.m.

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He also said that the commission would on Thursday issue a statement on when the Certificate of Return for the senators-elect and House of Representatives members -elect would be issued.

Tinubu, who was former governor of Lagos State, got a total votes of 8,794,726 to defeat his major rivals; Atiku Abubakar of the People Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 6,984,520 votes and Peter Obi of Labour Party who secured 6,101,533 votes of the 24,965,218 total vote cast.

Also Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) came a distant fourth with 1,496,687 votes.

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