Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of INEC and Returning Officer for the presidential election, announced Monday evening that the results collation would continue today at 11 a.m. after receiving the results from 14 states.
On Sunday, Mr. Yakubu received the Ekiti results. He received the results for the states of Nasarawa, Kwara, Osun, Ondo, Ogun, Oyo, Yobe, Enugu, Lagos, Gombe, Jigawa, Adamawa, and Katsina on Monday.
Bola Tinubu, the All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate, has so far prevailed in six states: Jigawa, Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Kwara, and Ekiti.
Atiku Abubakar, the candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is in the lead in five states: Katsina, Adamawa, Gombe, Yobe, and Osun.
Peter Obi, the candidate for the Labour Party (LP), has won in Nasarawa, Lagos, and Enugu.
As of Tuesday, Rabiu Kwankwaso, the leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), had not won any of the states that had been presented to the INEC chairman.
The appropriate INEC officials in some other states have already released the results, but Mr. Yakubu has not yet received them in Abuja.
Mr. Yakubu announced that the collation will end for the day and continue at 11 a.m. on Tuesday when more states' results will have arrived. However, no other state's collations officer was present.Dissent by PDP and LP
The PDP and LP representatives earlier protested INEC's failure to upload all polling unit results before the collation of results started by leaving the collation center.
Both sides asserted that all results must be uploaded to the INEC result Viewing Portal (IReV) before collation as required by election law.
Nonetheless, the INEC Chairman reiterated that even if the results were not posted, the process could still go forward.
As of Monday evening, less than 60% of the result sheets from all around Nigeria had been uploaded.
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