BREAKING: 2023 March 18 Election, Sanwo-Olu remains Lagos Gov

***Hails Lagosians for voting to retain Lagos

By allcitynews.ng

The All Progressives Congress [APC] Governorship candidate and current Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, was in the early hours of Monday declared the winner of the governorship election held on Saturday, March 18.

The state Returning Officer, Prof. Adenike Oladiji, made the declaration at INEC’s collation centre in Yaba, Lagos, saying, “I hereby declare that Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, having satisfied the requirements of the law by having 25 per cent of the total of the LGAs of the states and also having the highest number of votes cast and meeting the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the winner. ”

Oladiji is also the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure.

Sanwo-Olu won 19 of the 20 local government areas in the state by a landslide.

In Lagos Island Local Government Area, Sanwo-Olu polled 37,760 votes;
in Apapa, 21,007;
Epe 29,614;
Agege 35,845;
Ajeromi-Ifelodun 39,798;
Ikeja 32,273;
Mushin 52,249;
Surulere 42,451;
Ibeju-Lekki 19,369;
Ifako-Ijaiye 38,682;
Badagry 41,482;
Lagos Mainland; 26,021;
Alimosho 83,631;
Ojo 30,797;
Ikorodu 64,697;
Kosofe 49,344;
Oshodi-Isolo 46,792;
Somolu 36,783; and
Eti-Osa APC – 25,963.

Sanwo-Olu’s only loss by local government was at Amuwo-Odofin where the candidate of the Labour Party, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, polled 34,860 to defeat APC which polled 17,576 votes.

Sanwo-Olu polled 762,124 votes in the election, defeating 15 other candidates to retain his governorship seat in the state. Rhodes-Vivour of LP had the second-highest votes with 312,329 while the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Olajide Adediran, was the third-highest number of votes of 62,449.

The candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party, Olarewaju Jim-Kamal got 1,589 votes.

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Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos, is leading in the governorship election of the state.

Sanwo-Olu is contesting against Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party (LP) and Abdul-Azeez Adediran of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the governorship position.

The incumbent governor has won all the 18 LGAs announced so far by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Sanwo-Olu won in Ikeja, the LGA of the LP governorship candidate. He polled 32,273 votes to defeat Rhodes-Vivour who had 15,174 votes.

In his own LGA — Lagos Island — Sanwo-Olu won by a healthy margin.
The Lagos governor also won Surulere LGA, the base of Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, and Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house of representatives.

In Ojo, the LGA of the PDP candidate, Sanwo-Olu also posted a convincing victory. He secured 30,797 votes while the PDP candidate had 3,889 and Rhodes-Vivour polled 19,027.

The Lagos governor however lost to the LP candidate in Amuwo-Odofin LGA.
So far, the results from 19 of the 20 LGAs in the state have been announced.
The result of Eti-Osa — where election is rounding up — is the only outstanding.
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