Sanwo-Olu Leads LP’s Rhodes-Vivour With Over 400,000 Votes

The incumbent governor and APC candidate seeking reelection cleared 18 of the 19 Local Governments (LGs) announced so far while the Labour Party candidate won one LG.

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has cleared 18 of the 20 local government (LGs) in the March 18 governorship election conducted in the state.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate and incumbent who is seeking reelection has 718,595 votes at the collation of 15 local government results on Sunday.

Sanwo-Olu is ahead of Labour Party (LP)’s Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour who presently has 257,502 from the 15 LGs announced so far.

The LP candidate won Amuwo Odofin LG while Sanwo-Olu won Lagos Island, Apapa, Epe, Agege, Ajeromi Ifelodun, Ikeja, Mushin, Surulere, Ibeju-Lekki, Ifako-Ijaiye, Badagry, Lagos Mainland, Alimisho, Ojo, Ikorodu, Kosofe, Oshodi-Isolo, and Somolu.

The governor is also ahead of his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Olajide Adediran aka Jandor who has 59,172 votes from the 15 local governments.

The state collation officer said votes were still being expected from one more local government — Eti-Osa — which covers the Victoria Garden City (VGC) where elections were shifted in 10 polling units from Saturday to Sunday.

The state collation officer adjourned till 5pm ton Sunday.

Governorship elections were held in 28 of Nigeria’s 36 states on Saturday. The governorship and state assembly elections were held a week later than initially scheduled after a court case forced INEC to move them forward.

Eight of the 36 states — Anambra, Bayelsa, Edo, Ekiti, Imo, Kogi, Osun, and Ondo — have governorship elections “off-season” due to litigations and court judgements.

In alphabetical order, the 28 states where governorship elections were on March 18 are Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara.

Of the 28 states, 11 serving governors including Sanwo-Olu are seeking reelection while 17 outgoing governors are in the final weeks of their constitutional two-term limits of eight years, having been sworn in on May 29, 2015.

In the presidential election three weeks ago, LP’s Peter Obi polled 582,454 votes in Lagos to trounce the flag bearer of the APC, Bola Tinubu who scored 572,606 votes.

In total, Obi won 11 states and the Federal Capital Territory but Tinubu scored the highest votes in total and was later on Wednesday announced the winner of the poll and Nigeria’s President-elect.

PDP – 2607

Total valid votes – 63200
Rejected votes – 1037
Total votes cast – 64230

IKEJA
Prof Mohd Olawale – CO

Registered voters – 339879
Accredited voters – 51199

APC – 32273
LP – 15174
PDP – 1616

Total valid votes – 49899
Rejected votes – 686
Total votes cast – 50585

Cancellation at 3 units
Collected PVcs for Ikeja 299, 909

MUSHIN
PROF Abimbola Sowemimo – CO

Registered voters – 394463
Accredited voters – 70028

APC – 52249
LP – 11759
PDP – 4006

Total valid votes – 68952
Rejected votes – 959
Total votes cast – 69911

3 cancellations owing to over voting two units and one disruption

Total Pvcs collected 364192

SURULERE
Prof. Owolabi Kuye CO
Registered voters – 401846
Accredited voters – 75798

APC – 42451
LP – 28069
PDP – 2200

Total valid votes – 74001
Rejected votes – 990
Total votes cast – 74991

Cancellations at 8 polling units
Total PVCs collected in Surulere – 357326

IBEJU LEKKI
Prof.
Registered voters – 134496
Accredited voters – 27480

APC – 19369
LP – 3785
PDP – 3189

Total valid votes – 26580
Rejected votes – 899
Total votes cast – 27479

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Total PVCs in Lagos Mainland – 215200

ALIMOSHO
Prof. Hamid Sulaiman

Registered voters – 850557
Accredited voters – 132579

APC – 83631
LP – 37136
PDP – 7872

Total valid votes – 130524
Rejected votes – 1892
Total votes cast – 132416
Cancellation at two polling units due to disruption and over voting
Total PVCs in Alimosho –

OJO
Prof Sunday Adebusoye CO

Registered voters – 329799
Accredited voters – 58969

APC – 30797
LP – 19027
PDP – 3889

Total valid votes – 54450
Rejected votes – 910
Total votes cast – 55360
Cancellation at 43 polling units of 7 wards due to over voting, disruption as a result ballot snatching
Total PVCs in Ojo – 273899

Rejected votes – 608
Total votes cast – 56393
Cancellations due to disruptions and snatching of ballot boxes

AMUWO ODOFIN
Prof Abiara

Registered voters – 331215
Accredited voters – 55442

APC – 17576
LP – 34860
PDP – 1809

Total valid votes – 54763
Rejected votes – 573
Total votes cast – 55336

Cancellation in 30 polling units with over 16 thousand voters