President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday received former Senate President and Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Primary Elections Committee, Anyim Pius Anyim, at his residence in Ikoyi, Lagos.
The former Senate President’s visit came less than 48 hours after he presided over the APC presidential primary election that produced Tinubu as the party’s flag bearer for the 2027 general election.
Anyim’s courtesy visit formed part of a series of post-primary engagements held by the president at his Lagos residence on Tuesday.
Photographs released by the State House also showed President Tinubu holding separate meetings with several governors, including Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun, Ondo State Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, and Cross River State Governor Bassey Otu.
On Sunday, at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre in Abuja, Anyim officially announced the results of the nationwide direct primary and declared Tinubu the winner.
As Returning Officer and Chairman of the APC Presidential Primary Elections Committee, he disclosed that 12,643,306 voters were registered for the exercise, while 11,069,756 were accredited and 11,015,665 votes were cast.
“It is therefore my duty as Returning Officer for this primary election to declare President Bola Tinubu, having satisfied the guidelines, the winner of the APC presidential primary election and hereby declared the presidential candidate of the APC,” Anyim stated during the announcement.
Tinubu secured 10,999,162 votes, defeating his sole challenger, Stanley Osifo, a businessman from Edo State who purchased the APC presidential nomination form for N100 million and polled 16,503 votes.
The primary election was conducted across all 774 local government areas and 8,809 wards nationwide on Saturday, May 23, 2026, marking the first fully structured ward-based direct presidential primary in the party’s history.
The exercise concluded a week-long APC primary timetable, which included House of Representatives primaries on May 16, Senate primaries on May 18, State Assembly primaries on May 20, governorship primaries on May 21, and the presidential primary on May 23.
