{"id":23540,"date":"2023-03-02T03:51:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T03:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/03\/02\/nigeria-election-actor-desmond-elliot-celebrates-bola-tinubus-win\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T03:51:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T03:51:12","slug":"nigeria-election-actor-desmond-elliot-celebrates-bola-tinubus-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/03\/02\/nigeria-election-actor-desmond-elliot-celebrates-bola-tinubus-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria election: Actor Desmond Elliot celebrates Bola Tinubu&#8217;s win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Desmond-Elliot-1-1024x576.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Actor and Lagos State lawmaker, Desmond Elliot, has hit the streets to jubilate with other supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>The celebration comes after Bola Tinubu was declared the winner of the just-ended 2023 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>At 4:30 am on Wednesday, March 1, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu announced Bola Tinubu as the president-elect of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Bola Tinubu won with 8,794,726, beating Peter Obi who polled 6,101,533 and Atiku Abubakar who garnered 6,984520 votes respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing his joy at his party\u2019s victory, Desmond Elliot took to his social media to share a video of himself celebrating Tinubu\u2019s win on the streets of Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, \u201cCongratulations Naija, Renewed Hope III JAGABAN Hope Renewed III.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CpPOE32IKQ8\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>Elliot and other supporters of APC jubilated on the streets as they sang and danced to PSquare\u2019s \u201cBunieya Enu\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor and Lagos State lawmaker, Desmond Elliot, has hit the streets to jubilate with other supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC). 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At 4:30 am on Wednesday, March 1, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria election: Actor Desmond Elliot celebrates Bola Tinubu&#039;s win - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/03\/02\/nigeria-election-actor-desmond-elliot-celebrates-bola-tinubus-win\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria election: Actor Desmond Elliot celebrates Bola Tinubu&#039;s win - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Actor and Lagos State lawmaker, Desmond Elliot, has hit the streets to jubilate with other supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC). 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