• Polls Rivers 280,082 vote •Osun 100,800 • Lagos 4,996

Incumbent President Bola Tinubu on Saturday recorded landslides victory in the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential primary elections across major Nigerian states.

The APC presidential ticket for the 2027 election is being contested by the incumbent President, and a businessman Stanley Osifo, prompting the party to conduct direct primaries to determine its flagbearer.

The results from the direct primaries that were announced by states collation officers and tracked by ohibaba.com, shows that President Tinubu swept the majority votes.

Rivers State: Governor Siminalayi Fubara, declared that President Tinubu won the Rivers APC presidential primary with 280,082 vote whereas the only APC presidential contender in the race, Stanley Osifo, scored zero vote.

In Lagos, President Tinubu also polled 4,996 votes at his Ward L2 in Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos State.

Tinubu emerged overwhelmingly ahead in the exercise conducted at Ireti Nursery and Primary School, Mekwen Street, Off Queens Drive, Ikoyi, where party members gathered in large numbers to participate in the direct primary.

In Osun State, the President polled 100,880 votes to win the exercise against his opponent, Mr Stanley Osifo, who polled zero votes.

Declaring the result of the exercise in Osogbo on Saturday, the Osun State collation officer, Mr Gboyega Oyetola, who is the minister of marine and blue economy, commended party members for their peaceful conduct during the exercise.

He said that the party has 109,806 digitally registered members, out of which 100,880 were accredited for the exercise.

His words, “By the powers vested in me as the Collation Officer for Osun State, I hereby declare His Excellency Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, as the winner of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Primary Election 2026 in Osun State.

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has cleared a total of 705 aspirants to contest various elective positions in the 2027 general elections as its primaries set to begin on Monday.

According to the party, 513 aspirants were cleared for the House of Representatives, while 80 were cleared for the Senate.

The National Publicity Secretary of the ADC, Bolaji Abdullahi, who disclosed this in a terse update, said the number of aspirants cleared for the various State Houses of Assembly is still being compiled by the state chapters of the party.

“Until the secretariat gets the full reports from the states, it would be difficult to give the figures for the State Assemblies,” the party stated.

The development indicates a significant level of interest within the ADC ahead of the 2027 polls, as the party positions itself as a major contender in the political space.

Photo: President Bola Tinubu, accompanied by the First Lady and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, at the APC presidential primary at his new ward in Ikoyi,Lagos

Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, Former Governor of the State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, Consensus governorship candidate, Senator Olamilekan Adeola have hailed the conduct of the Presidential Primary of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the State.

The APC Chieftains at their various wards across the 20 local governments area of the State, joined the mammoth APC faithfuls crowd who gathered on a straight line through option A4, affirmed the candidacy of President Bola Tinubu as the Presidential candidate of APC in the coming 2027 general elections.

While speaking at their various locations, they described the massive turnout as a special and a demonstration that Nigerians are for President Tinubu and APC.

They also commended the peaceful conduct of the primary.

Earlier, President Bola Tinubu described the exercise as peaceful, transparent and a demonstration of internal democracy.

Tinubu spoke after participating in the exercise held at Ward L2, Ikoyi II, Ireti Primary School, Mekunwen Street, Ikoyi, Eti-Osa Local Government, Lagos, where thousands of party members had gathered for the presidential primary election.

President Tinubu commended party members, governors and officials for the orderly conduct of the exercise across the country.