The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has floored the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State.
This was based on the collation of results at
the Independent National Electoral Commission Lagos State collation centre in
Yaba.
Peter Obi defeated Bola Tinubu, the All
Progressives Congress (APC) standard bearer, after the votes were calculated
from all the 20 LGAs in the state.
Obi won nine local government areas of the
state.
The LGAs are Ajeromi-Ifelodun, Amuwo-Odofin,
Eti-Osa, Ikeja, Kosofe, Oshodi-Isolo, Somolu, Ojo and Alimosho.
Tinubu is a former Lagos governor and the
state is historically his stronghold.
Tinubu polled 572,606 behind Obi who had
582,354. Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) garnered 75,750
votes, while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and
Adewole Adebayo of Social Democratic Party (SDP) had 8,442 and 772
respectively.
The number of registered votes was put at
6,942,885; accredited voters 1,347,152, valid votes 1,271,451; rejected votes:
64,278 and total votes cast 1,335,729.
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