• Overtakes Tinubu in Nigeria’s Capital City
• Wins three out of Abuja’s six LGAs
By Louis Achi
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has been declared winner of presidential election in Nigeria’s most populous state, Lagos.
Lagos has the political reputation of being the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola tinubu’s impregnable turf.
Out of the 1,347,152 accredited voters Obi secured 582,454 votes to defeat his closest challenger, APC’s Bola Ahmed Tinubu who scored 572, 606 votes.
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Atiku Abubakar came third with 75,750 votes.
Despite Tinubu’s victory in the majority of the 20 local governments in Lagos (11), Obi’s total votes were more. He also won in the remaining nine local government areas.
The result has been described by many analysts as a demystification of Mr Tinubu, who had been predicted to win the state where he was governor between 1999 and 2007.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the results at the state’s collation centre on Monday morning.
The details, political parties and their scores, are reproduced below:
Accredited voters 1,347152
A – 3069; AA – 498; AAC – 1597; ADC – 5789; ADP – 2439; APC – 572,606; APGA – 2316; APM – 709; APP – 371; BP – 1837; LP – 582454; NNPP – 8,442; LRM – 609; PDP – 75,750; PRP – 1120; SDP – 772; YPP – 1109; ZLP – 9964.
Valid votes 1271451
Rejected 64278
Total votes cast 1335729
Obi Overtakes Tinubu in Country’s Capital
Meanwhile, Peter Obi has also overtaken Tinubu in the country’s capital city Abuja, winning three out of the six LGAs
The results from Gwagwalada, Kwali, Bwari, Abaji and Kuje have been declared so far at the FCT collation centre with the Abuja Municipal Council (AMAC) being the Area Council’s result unannounced.
Obi, has 111,352 votes from the five Area Councils declared so far.
APC’s Tinubu, is in second position with 61,306 votes while Atiku Abubakar of PDP is in third position with 47,792 votes.
Obi won Kuje Area Council with 14,257 votes, while Tinubu maintained second position with 10648 votes and Atiku came third with 10028 votes.
In Gwagwalada, Obi polled 19694 votes, putting him ahead of the APC candidate who scored 15890 votes and Atiku managed 10987 votes.
So far, Obi polled the biggest victory in Bwari Area Council, where he polled 67198 votes against the 13156 and 10835 votes got by APC and PDP respectively.
In Kwali, Tinubu polled 11,242 votes to defeat his closest rival, Atiku Abubakar who 9,054 votes while Mr Obi scored 7,302 votes to emerge third in the Area Council.
In Abaji, Tinubu won 10,370 votes leaving Atiku trailing with 6888 votes and Obi emerging third with 2874 votes.
