Obi leads Tinubu in Lagos after 17 LGAs declared
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has collated presidential election results of 17 out of 20 local government areas of Lagos state.
APC won 10 of the local government results declared so far while the Labour Party’s Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi, won seven in the closely contested presidential election.
But in terms of the number of votes, Obi has 32,657 more than Tinubu.
While Obi has 449,088 votes, Tinubu has so far polled 416,431 votes.
The Candidate of the PDP, Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is coming behind in a distant third.
The exercise, which started at about 6.30 p.m. on Sunday evening at INEC Media Centre at the commission’s headquarters in Yaba,, was stopped intermittently to wait for the arrival of results from some LGAs.
The yet-to-be-presented LGAs results are those of Ojo and Alimosho LGAs while results from Mushin, though presented but yet to be approved and accepted.
The State Collation Centre Officer, Prof. Adenike Oladiji, the Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), who announced a break at 4. a.m. said that the collation would resume at 10. a.m. on Monday.
Breakdown of results:
Lagos Mainland LG
APC – 20,030
PDP – 3,005
LP – 18,698
NNPP – 257
Total valid votes: 43,095
Total number of rejected votes: 2,204
Total number of votes cast: 45,299
2. Epe LG
APC – 19,867
LP – 3,497
NNPP – 76
PDP – 5221
Total valid votes: 29,222
Total number of rejected votes: 1,356
Total number of votes cast: 30,578
3. Lagos Island LG
APC – 27,760
LP – 3,058
NNPP – 79
PDP – 2521
Total valid votes – 33,886
Total number of rejected votes – 1,052
Total votes cast – 34,934
4. Ibeju-Lekki LG
APC – 14,685
LP – 10,410
NNPP – 104
PDP – 2,329
5. Ikorodu LG
APC – 50,353
LP – 28,951
NNPP – 400
PDP – 4,508
6. Ikeja LG
APC – 21,276
LP – 30,004
NNPP – 337
PDP – 2,280
7. Badagry
APC – 31,908
LP – 10,956
NNPP – 153
PDP – 6,024
8. Agege
APC – 29, 568
LP – 13,270
NNPP – 1,513
PDP – 4,498
9. Kosofe
APC – 36, 883
LP – 46,554
NNPP – 903
PDP – 4058
10. Eti Osa
APC – 15,317
LP – 42,338
NNPP – 381
PDP – 3,369
11 Amuwo Odofin
APC – 13318
LP – 55,547
NNPP – 330
PDP – 2383
12 Somolu
APC- 27,879
Labour Party-28,936
NNNP-476
PDP-3,449.
