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Peter Obi Shocks Tinubu, Wins Lagos State in #NigeriaDecides2023
Peter Obi has defeated Tinubu in Lagos State in ongoing Nigeria Decides 2023.
Newsone reports that the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the ongoing 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has won the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigeria’s ruling party, Bola Tinubu.
This online news platform understands that Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, Nigeria’s commercial city, voted at Polling Unit 85, Ward 3 in Ikeja local government on Saturday, February 25, 2023.
Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, southeast Nigeria, has won Lagos State in the presidential election held in Lagos on Saturday from the Lagos 2023 Presidential Election results announced at the Lagos collation centre, INEC Yaba Secretariat so far.
As of the time (3:34 am), 17 local governments had been declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before the collation was adjourned to 10: 00 am.
On the aggregate, Obi polled 449,088 votes while Tinubu has so far garnered 416,,431 votes, leaving. Notwithstanding, the results showed that Tinubu won in 10 LGs as LP clinched 7 of the aforesaid 17 LGAs.
The local governments won by Tinubu include Agege, Apapa, Badagry, Epe, Ibeju-Lekki, Ifako-Ijaiye, Ikorodu, Lagos Island, Lagos Mainland, and Surulere.
On the other side, Obi won in Eti-Osa, Amuwo Odofin, Ikeja, Ajeromi-Ifelodun, Kosofe, Oshodi-Isolo, and Somolu. Only the results of Alimosho, Ojo, and Mushin were expected this morning.
This morning, after votes from all the 20 local government areas were announced, Peter Obi defeated Bola Tinubu, a former Lagos governor. Lagos state is historically his stronghold.
See the Lagos 2023 Presidential Election Results Below:
APC: 572, 606
LP: 582, 354
NNPP: 8442
PDP: 75 750
SDP: 772
Accredited voters: 1,347152
Total Valid votes: 1271451
Rejected votes: 64278.
Meanwhile, Newsone Nigeria recalls that Mushin LG’s result was initially announced by the Collation Officer but it was rejected to some dispute in the figure.
