It's Official - Ruling Party's Sanwo-Olu Re-Elected Lagos Governor PremiumTimesng: Nigeria
Mr Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress was declared the winner of Saturday's governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission in the early hours of Monday.
He secured a total of 762,134 votes against his main challengers -- Olajide 'Jandor' Adediran of the PDP who polled 62,449 and Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the LP who got 312,329 votes. INEC Returning officer, Adenike Oladiji, who announced the result said Mr Sanwo-Olu scored 25 percent of the total number of votes and also the highest number of votes in the race.Mr Sanwo-Olu, she added, polled the highest number of votes in Ikeja, Apapa, Badagry, Lagos Island, Epe, Agege, Ibeju-lekki, Kosofe, Surulere and Somolu.
Others are Ajeromi-Ifelodun, Ifako-Ijaiye, Lagos Mainland, Alimosho, Ojo, Ikorodu, Mushin and Oshodi-Isolo and Eti-Osa.Below are the details of the result announced by INEC at about 1.15 p.m.
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