Tinubu Begins to Receive Presidential Treatment, First Step Revealed

Tinubu Begins to Receive Presidential Treatment, First Step Revealed

  • Bola Tinubu, the elected president in the just concluded 2023 presidential election, will be moved to the Defence House in Maitama, FCT, today, Thursday
  • The president-elect would be at the Defence House and start receiving briefings as the president till May 29, when he will be sworn-in
  • APC presidential campaign council disclosed the development in a tweet on Thursday, the day after Tinubu was declared the winner of the poll

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FCT, Abuja - President-elect Bola Tinubu has started receiving the needed presidential treatment as he would be moved to the Defence House in Maitama today, at the Federal Capital Territory.

By law, the president-elect would be at the Defence House and start receiving presidential briefings till when he is sworn in as the president and then moved to the presidential villa.

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Bola Tinubu to be moved to the Defence House in Maitama Photo Credit: APC Presidential Campaign Council
Source: Twitter

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council disclosed that the former Lagos state governor will be moved to the Defence House today, Thursday, March 2, via its official Twitter page.

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The tweet reads:

"The President-Elect will be moving into Defence House, in Maitama, FCT, where he will spend the next couple of months, and from where he will move into the Presidential Villa."

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On Wednesday morning, March 1, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Bola Tinubu, the candidate of the APC, as the winner of the 2023 presidential election.

Tinubu had polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat his closest rivals from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).

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Atiku Abubakar, the PDP candidate in the poll, scored 6,984,520 ahead of Peter Obi, the Labour Party's candidate, who garnered 6,101,533 votes and Rabiu Kwankwaso (NNPP), who got over 1 million votes.

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Legit.ng earlier reported the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, has set up a committee to reconcile with his opponents in the just concluded presidential and national .assembly election.

The governor of Ondo state, Rotimi Akeredolu, disclosed the plan during the presentation of the certificate to return to the president-elect.

According to Akeredolu, the committee is dominated by the elders of the ruling APC.

"Allah Akbar": APC chieftains celebrate Tinubu's victory in Islamic way

Femi Fani-Kayode, a chieftain of the APC, has reacted to a video of some Muslims celebrating Bola Tinubu's victory in an Islamic way.

The former minister of aviation described the video as the best he had ever come across since the celebration of Tinubu's victory began.

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Tinubu was declared the winner on Wednesday, March 1, following the conclusion of the presidential election on Saturday, February 25.

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Bada Yusuf (Politics and Current Affairs Editor) Yusuf Amoo Bada is an accomplished writer with 7 years of experience in journalism and writing, he is also politics and current affairs editor with Legit.ng. He holds B.A in Literature from OAU, and Diploma in Mass Comm. He has obtained certificates in Google's Advance Digital Reporting, News Lab workshop. He previously worked as an Editor with OperaNews. Legit’s Best Editor of the Year for Politics and Current Affairs Desk (2023). Contact: bada.yusuf.amoo@corp.legit.ng