President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday received former Senate President and Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Primary Elections Committee, Anyim Pius Anyim, at his Ikoyi residence in Lagos.
The former lawmaker paid a courtesy visit to the President barely 48 hours after presiding over the primary exercise that returned the President as the ruling party’s candidate for the 2027 general election.
Anyim’s visit was among a series of post-primary calls the President received at the Lagos residence on Tuesday.
“It is therefore my duty as returning officer for this primary election to declare President Bola Tinubu, having satisfied the guidelines, as the winner of the APC presidential primary election and hereby declared the presidential candidate of the APC,” Anyim had said at the declaration ceremony.
Tinubu polled 10,999,162 votes against his sole challenger, Stanley Osifo, a businessman from Edo State who had purchased the N100m APC presidential nomination form, who scored 16,503 votes.
The primary was conducted across all 774 local government areas and 8,809 wards nationwide on Saturday, May 23, 2026, the first formally contested and ward-level direct presidential primary in the party’s history.
The exercise marked the conclusion of a week-long APC primary calendar that included House of Representatives primaries on May 16, Senate primaries on May 18, State Assembly primaries on May 20, governorship primaries on May 21 and the presidential primary on May 23.
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