The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has provided the reason for its decision to declare the result of the 2023 presidential election in the middle of the night. The electoral umpire announced Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner of the presidential election with 8,794,726 votes, ahead of his challengers, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi. INEC, led by Professor Mahmood Yakubu, declared Tinubu’s victory on Wednesday, March 1, at about 2 am before the media. Most Nigerians wh…