President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday received former Senate President and Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Primary Elections Committee, Anyim Pius Anyim, at his Ikoyi residence in Lagos.
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The former lawmaker paid a courtesy visit to the President barely 48 hours after presiding over the primary exercise that returned the President as the ruling party’s candidate for the 2027 general election.
The former lawmaker paid a courtesy visit to the President barely 48 hours after presiding over the primary exercise that returned the President as the ruling party’s candidate for the 2027 general election.
Anyim’s visit was among a series of post-primary calls the President received at the Lagos residence on Tuesday.
According to photographs released by the State House, the President held separate meetings with Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun, Ondo State Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa and Cross River State Governor Bassey Otu.
Anyim, on Sunday at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre in Abuja, had announced the final results of the nationwide direct primary and formally declared Tinubu the winner.
Serving as the Returning Officer and Chairman of the Presidential Primary Elections Committee, Anyim announced that total registered voters for the exercise stood at 12,643,306; total accredited, 11,069,756; and total votes cast, 11,015,665.
“It is therefore my duty as returning officer for this primary election to declare President Bola Tinubu, having satisfied the guidelines, as the winner of the APC presidential primary election and hereby declared the presidential candidate of the APC,” Anyim had said at the declaration ceremony.
Tinubu polled 10,999,162 votes against his sole challenger, Stanley Osifo, a businessman from Edo State who had purchased the N100m APC presidential nomination form, who scored 16,503 votes.
The primary was conducted across all 774 local government areas and 8,809 wards nationwide on Saturday, May 23, 2026, the first formally contested and ward-level direct presidential primary in the party’s history.
The exercise marked the conclusion of a week-long APC primary calendar that 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. L-R: Ondo state Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, and President Bola Tinubu during a courtesy visit to Tinubu at his residence in Lagos on Tuesday. Photo: State House
