THE 2023 presidential election in Nigeria has been formally won – and lost. By mid-week Bola Ahmed Tinubu, of the ruling All Progressives Congress had been declared the winner of the keenly contested presidential election with 36% of the 24,965,218 votes cast. His closest rivals were Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party and the Labour Party’s Peter Obi. Abubakar got 29% of the votes cast while got Obi got 25%. Author AL CHUKWUMA OKOLI, SeniorLecturer, Security Sector Consultant-researcher, Department of Political Science, Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria, Federal University Lafia Atiku’s and Obi’s parties described the poll as a…