Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has won the All Progressives Congress presidential ticket for the 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n
He scored 1,271 votes to clinch the party\u2019s ticket.<\/span><\/p>\n Tinubu, also the National Leader of the party, defeated 13 other aspirants to emerge the flag bearer at the end of the Special National Convention of the party on Wednesday in Abuja.<\/span><\/p>\n The other aspirants included Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajuba, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Chief Ikeobasi Mokelu, Sen. Rochas Okorocha, Mr Tein Jack-Rich and Gov. Ben Ayade.<\/span><\/p>\n Others were Governor David Umuahi, Senator Ahmad Yarima, Dr Ahmed Lawal, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, Governor Yahaya Bello and Mr Ogbonnaya Onu.<\/span><\/p>\n The race began with 23 aspirants, but nine withdrew shortly before the commencement of voting at the convention.<\/span><\/p>\n They included Mrs Uju Kennedy-Ohnenye, Dr Felix Nicholas, former Gov. Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, former Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun, former Speaker Dimeji Bankole, Sen. Ajayi Boroffice, Gov. Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa, Sen. Ken Nnamani and Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State.<\/span><\/p>\n Full result: <\/span><\/p>\n Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajuba one votes<\/span><\/p>\n Pastor Tunde Bakare- zero votes<\/span><\/p>\n Sen. Ahmad Yarima \u2013 four votes<\/span><\/p>\n Sen. Rochas Okorocha \u2013 zero votes<\/span><\/p>\n Mr Tein Jack Rich \u2013 zero votes<\/span><\/p>\n Gov. Ben Ayade \u2013 37 votes<\/span><\/p>\n Gov. David Umuahi \u2013 38 votes<\/span><\/p>\n Dr Ahmad Lawal \u2013 152 votes<\/span><\/p>\n Yemi Osinbajo- 235 votes<\/span><\/p>\n Mr Rotimi Amaechi- 316 votes<\/span><\/p>\n Gov. Yahaya Bello \u2013 47 votes<\/span><\/p>\n Mr Ogbonnaya Onu \u2013 one vote<\/span><\/p>\n Chief Ikeobasi Mokelu- zero vote.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has won the All Progressives Congress presidential ticket for the 2023 general elections. He scored 1,271 votes to clinch the party\u2019s ticket. Tinubu, also the National Leader of the party, defeated 13 other aspirants to emerge the flag bearer at the end of the Special National Convention of the party on Wednesday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[111,5095,4883],"class_list":["post-8764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-full-result","tag-presidential-primary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8766,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions\/8766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAsiwaju Bola Tinubu- 1, 271 votes<\/span><\/p>\n