{"id":83472,"date":"2023-02-28T20:15:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T19:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/presidential-election-peter-obi-winning-fct-raises-questions-about-possible-run-off"},"modified":"2023-02-28T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T20:23:00","slug":"presidential-election-peter-obi-winning-fct-raises-questions-about-possible-run-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidential-election-peter-obi-winning-fct-raises-questions-about-possible-run-off","title":{"rendered":"Presidential election: Peter Obi winning FCT raises questions about possible run off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>There have been speculations across Nigeria that the 2023 presidential election may end up in a constitutional crisis.<\/p>\n<p>With most of the results of last Saturday\u2019s presidential election announced, it is looking likely that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, will end up with the highest number of valid votes.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu will also have garnered at least 25% votes in at least 24 states of the federation.<\/p>\n<p>But the 1999 Constitution says 24 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).<\/p>\n<p>This has led to different interpretations.<\/p>\n<p>The results from the FCT showed that APC had just 19.8% and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had 16.1%, compared to Labour Party\u2019s Peter Obi who picked up 61%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no run off,\u201d Barrister Kwami Adadevoh, whose legal practice straddles between Nigeria, Ghana and the UK told DAILY POST.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other two (Tinubu and Atiku) have won 25% in 24 states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FCT is not a state. Otherwise the reading you\u2019re applying would require that even if someone won 25% in 36 states but didn\u2019t win 25% in Abuja then the person hasn\u2019t won.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we should we be expecting INEC\u2019s announcement of a winner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy tomorrow I\u2019m sure,\u201d Adadevoh replied.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. There have been speculations across Nigeria that the 2023 presidential election may end up in a constitutional crisis. With most of the results of last Saturday\u2019s presidential election announced, it is looking likely that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, will end up with the highest number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":83471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,622,254,222,6165],"class_list":["post-83472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-fct","tag-nigeria","tag-peter-obi","tag-presidential-election"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Presidential election: Peter Obi winning FCT raises questions about possible run off - 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