Politics
THE Independent National Electoral Commissioner has begun the collation of results for the February 25 presidential election in Lagos State.
INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Olusegun Agbaje opened the floor at the state collation centre in the Yaba area of the state on Sunday.
The results for four local governments (LGs) were announced — Lagos Mainland, Ikorodu, Epe and Lagos Island.
However, the state collation officer asked the LG collation officer for Ikorodu to cross-check her figures, saying they did not add up.
The commission in the state said it will reconvene later in the evening by 08:30 pm.
See results:
- Lagos Mainland LG
APC – 20,030
PDP – 3,002
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
Of the 87, 209,007 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) collected nationwide for the election, 6,214,970 PVCs were collected in Lagos. This is closely followed by Kano with 5,594,193, and Kaduna with 4,164, 473.
Lagos is the base of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who was governor of the state from 1999 to 2007.
Other presidential candidates in the race include Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).
-(From Chanels)
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