Tinubu wins APC presidential ticket for 2027 in record landslide, with nearly 11m votes

President Bola Tinubu has secured the All Progressives Congress presidential nomination for the 2027 general election in a resounding landslide, crushing his sole challenger with almost 11 million votes in the party’s primary.

Pius Anyim, who chaired the APC Presidential Primary Election Committee, declared Tinubu the winner on Friday after results were compiled from all 36 states, 774 local government areas, and 8,809 wards nationwide—making it one of the most comprehensive primary exercises in the party’s history.

“Having satisfied the requirements of the APC constitution and guidelines, and scored the highest number of votes, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is hereby declared the winner of the primary election and is therefore nominated as the party’s presidential candidate,” Anyim announced before cheering delegates.

Out of 12,643,306 registered voters on the party’s roll, 11,069,756 were accredited, and 11,015,665 cast ballots—a turnout of roughly 99.5 percent of accredited voters.

Tinubu garnered 10,999,162 votes, or 99.85 percent of the total. His only rival, Stanley Osifo, managed just 16,503 votes.

The margin was decisive: Tinubu beat Osifo in every single state, including several where Osifo recorded zero votes—Osun, the Federal Capital Territory, Kogi, Delta, Ebonyi, Jigawa, Kebbi, Ondo, Yobe, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Ekiti, Ogun, Sokoto, Cross River, Taraba, and Gombe.

Tinubu’s strongest showing came from his political stronghold, Lagos, where he took 814,988 votes against Osifo’s 1,186. He also dominated Adamawa with 644,149 to Osifo’s 195, and Kaduna with 618,914 while Osifo got none.

Other major performances included Imo (582,960), Kano (500,852), Gombe (450,517), Borno (414,988), Delta (407,646), Akwa Ibom (389,197), Enugu (383,382), Benue (374,787), Katsina (467,003), and Ogun (322,485).

Osifo’s best result came in Niger State, where he received 5,248 votes against Tinubu’s 175,487, followed by Kano (2,675), Bauchi (2,650), and Abia (1,007).

The primary, held on May 23, 2026, positions Tinubu as the APC’s standard-bearer for the 2027 election, where he will seek a second four-year term. His first term began in May 2023.

The exercise followed the Electoral Act and the APC constitution, with Anyim—a former Senate President and former Secretary to the Government of the Federation—lending institutional weight to the process.

Notable figures at the declaration included Vice President Kashim Shettima, APC state governors who served as state returning officers, First Lady Olu-Remi Tinubu, Senator Ken Nnamani, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, and other party stalwarts.

With the ticket now locked in, attention turns to the APC’s campaign strategy and the shape of the opposition ahead of the 2027 contest.

About The Author

Dele Fashomi

Dele Fashomi, seasoned journalist and communication teacher, is a holder of Master of Arts degree in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan in 1992/93.

Earlier, he had bagged a Bachelor degree from the same university in 1984, after which he proceeded to the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, in 1990, for a postgraduate diploma in Journalism.

He had done many courses in communication, including the EU-BBC Editing Course in 2002.

Mr. Fashomi combines effectively the practice, research and teaching of communication. And to date, he has published two academic works in communication: Issues in Communication Technology and Policy (2010) and Economic and Social Issues in Advertising and PR (2013).

He had his first break in the Nigerian media in Concord Newspapers in 1990 and today, he has over two and half decades experience earned in several newspapers.

He has been part of many start-ups, such as The Republic (1987), The Comet (1999), The Anchor 2001 – 2002; Sun Newspapers (2003); Westerner newsmagazine (2005 – 2010) as Editor; National Life (2011) as Sunday Editor, and Newswatch Newspapers (2012- 2016) as Daily Editor.

Dele Fashomi is now the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Newstide247.com newspaper online, which he started in July 2015. He is also into biography writing, with many books in his trail, some of which he wrote alone and one he co- authored with his mentor, Mr Dare Babarinsa, entitled:  Olabiyi Durojaiye – DARE TO BE DiFFERENT. He also guided and collaborated with Pa Olatunji Odusanya in writing his autobiography – AGAINST ALL ODDS. There are many other books in the works under his pen.

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