In the 2023 Nigerian presidential election, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) won with 8,794,726 votes, accounting for 36.61% of the total votes. The runners-up were Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who received 6,984,520 votes, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), who garnered 6,101,533 votes.