Senate President Ahmad Lawan has said that Nigeria will experience more development with Bola Tinubu as president.
Lawan, who made the remarks at the start of plenary on Wednesday, prayed that the country would see more, better development and progress with the leadership of Tinubu.
He also prayed that the 10th Senate would provide the kind of support that the president-elect would need for the betterment of the country.
Lawan said: “Let me invite distinguished senators, particularly the All Progressives Congress (APC) senators, to attend, if possible, the ceremony for the issuance of Certificates of Return to our President-elect Bola Tinubu at 3 p.m. at the International Conference Centre (ICC).”
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the early hours of Wednesday declared Tinubu the winner of the Feb. 25 presidential election.
Tinubu, who was the former governor of Lagos State, got a total of 8, 794, 726 votes to defeat his major rivals, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 6, 984, 520 votes, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), who secured 6, 101,533 votes of the 24, 965, 218 total votes cast.
Also, Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) came in a distant fourth with 1,496,687 votes.
The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said that Tinubu was declared returned and elected, having satisfied the requirements.
“That Tinubu Bola Ahmed of the APC, having satisfied the requirements of the law and scoring the highest votes, is hereby declared the winner and elected,” Yakubu said.
(NAN)
