Babajide Sanwo-olu, candidate of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos state, is leading Jimi Agbaje of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), his closest rival in 15 local government
areas of the state announced so far.
While the APC candidate polled a
total of 481,946 votes, his PDP rival is trailing with 128,659 votes.
Sanwo-Olu won in Epe, Ikorodu,
Ibeju-Lekki, Ikeja, Lagos Island and Lagos Mainland local government areas
(LGAs).
Other local governments where the
APC led are Agege, Apapa, Amuwo-Odofin, Oshodi-Isolo, Mushin, Kosofe, Somolu,
Eti-Osa and Surulere.
In Epe LGA, APC scored 35, 609
votes while PDP polled 6, 464. In Lagos Mainland LGA, APC polled 27,333 and PDP
scored 7,265.
In Lagos Island, APC polled
31,991 with the PDP scoring 4,346; in Ikeja, APC polled 28,592 and PDP scored
8,109, while in Ikorodu, APC polled 45,879 and PDP got 14,769.
In Apapa, APC polled 20, 469 with
the PDP scoring 5, 959; in Somolu LGA, APC polled 40, 408 and PDP scored 9,991,
while in Agege LGA, APC polled 38, 515 and PDP got 8, 371.
In Amuwo-Odofin LGA, APC polled
23, 267 with the PDP scoring 13, 700; in Ibeju-Lekki LGA, APC polled 23, 298
and PDP scored 3,320, while in Eti-Osa LGA, APC polled 30, 504 and PDP got 10,
678.
In Oshodi-Isolo LGA, APC 39,945
polled with the PDP scoring 12, 585 ; in Mushin LGA, APC polled 51,899 and PDP
scored 8751 while in Kosofe LGA, APC 44, 423 polled and PDP got 14, 351.
In Surulere LGA, APC polled 39,
986 with the PDP scoring 13, 733.
Other political parties across
each LGA scored less than 1000 votes each including the Action Democratic Party
(ADP)
The election results were
presented and accepted by the state returning officer, Eyitope Ogunbodede,
vice-chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Osun.
Ogunbodede gave room to political
party agents to make and observations before admitting the results.
Earlier in his opening remarks,
Ogunbodede assured the stakeholders that the exercise would be transparent as
much as possible.
The exercise, which commenced at
10:15am.on Sunday, at the INEC Office, Yaba, had been nonstop.
Oloye Gboyega Adeniji, the
gubernatorial candidate of Peoples Party of Nigeria (PPN) and party agent at
the collation centre decried the low voter turnout saying the people stayed in
their houses because of intimidation and fear of not being killed.
“This is not fair in democracy; there must be opportunity
for everybody to vote without intimidation. This is not fear. We are heading to
one party state, we are heading to anarchy,’’ Adeniji said.
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