Nigeria Election Final Results: Bola Tinubu Wins Most Votes in Presidency Race

Bola Tinubu, the candidate of Nigeria’s ruling party, won the most votes in the contest to become the next president of Africa’s biggest economy, with the final winner yet to be declared.

With ballots from all of Nigeria’s 36 states and the federal capital territory tallied, Tinubu won 35.3% of the total votes, results announced Tuesday by the Independent National Electoral Commission show. Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party won 27.9% of overall ballots, while outsider candidate Peter Obi won 24.4%, according to Bloomberg calculations. Each of the three leading contenders won 12 states.