The collation of presidential election will resume Monday, the Independent National Electoral Commission has said.
The Commission Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu announced the adjournment after taking the result of Ekiti State which was won by the All Progressives Congress, APC candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu with 210,494.
Former Vice President and candidate of the PDP scored 89,554 to come second while former Anambra state governor and candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi scored 11,397, to come third.
Results from other states are expected to arrive Abuja by Monday.
The Result for the Presidential election was presented to the INEC Chairman who is the Chief Returning Officer by the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Health Sciences, Ila Orogun, Prof Akin Olawole Lasisi who os the collation officer for Ekiti State.
Announcing the adjournment, Yakubu said it was to allow the commission make special arrangements to bring the remaining State Returning Officers to Abuja.
He said the commission was confident that other states would conclude the processes of collation and bring the results to Abuja for national collation.
Scores by other parties are A-69, AA-29, AAC-108, ADC-1,337, ADP-737, APGA-268, APM-46, APP-91, BP- 46, NNPP-264, NRM-131, PRP-48,SDP-2011, YPP-81, ZLP-460.
Prof Salami said elections in two polling units were cancelled for bypassing the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and over voting.
Responding to a question from the agent to the PDP, Senator Dino Melaye, Prof Salami said “we discovered that the number of accredited voters as contained in the BVAS was more that the number of votes cast leading to over voting and therefore, the result had to be cancelled.
The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Campbell Laing and the US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard as well as the National Chairman of the APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu witnessed the exercise.
