Peter Obi wins the Lagos State Presidential Election.
The victory of Peter Obi, candidate of the Labour Party, over Bola Tinubu, candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in Lagos State, which is considered to be a stronghold of Tinubu,
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This was evident in the results announced at the INEC’s Lagos state collation center, which are subject to ratification by the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. NewsReport gathered.
INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner, Olusegun Agbaje, made the announcement on Monday.
Lagos has traditionally been a political stronghold of the ruling party, but years of disenchantment among the youth with the elite have resulted in this shocker.
In the final results declared, Obi (LP) garnered 582,454 votes against Tinubu’s (APC) 572,606. The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, got 75,750 votes, while Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) got 8,442 votes.
The total number of registered voters was estimated to be 1,347,152.
Below are the results according to the local government areas in the state: