Lagos State governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has been declared winner of the Saturday’s Governorship elections.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Returning Officer, Prof. Adenike Oladiji, Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, (FUTA) Akure, disclosed this on Monday in Lagos.
She said Sanwo-Olu scored a total of 762, 134 votes to defeat his closest rival of the Labour Party, Mr Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour who scored 312, 329 votes.
Oladiji said the PDP candidate, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran garnered 62,449 votes to come a distant third in the election.
She she votes garnered by other political parties in the contest as: A (800), AA (904), AAC(627), ADC (6,078), ADP(2833), APM (884), APP (259), BP (616),NNPP (1,583), NRM (340), SDP (1,746), YPP (461) and ZLP (1,635).
Oladiji put the total number of registered voters at 7,060,195; total accredited voters at 1,182620; total vote cast at 1,173,631, total valid vote at 1, 155, 678 and rejected votes at 17,953.
Oladiji said: “I declare that Sanwo-Olu Babajide Olusola of APC, having satisfied the requirements of the law by scoring 25 per cent in two-third of the local government areas in the state and also scoring the highest number of vote cast is hereby declared the winner and he is returned elected.”
The returning officer invited party agents available to sign the results of the poll, but agents of the LP and PDP were not present to sign the results.
The results showed that the APC won in 19 Local Government Areas of the state, the LP won in one LGA while the PDP did not win.
In his remark, the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr Olusegun Agbaje, denied manipulating manipulation the results, adding that though such allegations were not strange in a clime like ours and decried the poor turn out of voters.
Earlier, before leaving the collation centre, Pastor Dayo Ekong, Lagos State Chairman of LP and party’s State Collation Agent, called for the cancellation of the elections.
Accusing Agbaje of disappointing the youth, Ekong decried high level of violence, attacks, ballot boxes snatching, disruption, disenfranchisement as well as killing in some case that characterised the exercise.
Meanwhile, the APC’s State Collation Agent, Mr Fouad Oki, who expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the poll, described the ruling party’s victory as democracy at work.
