All Progressive Congress’s Babajide Sanwo-Olu led the voting with a apparent margin about his closest rival from the Labour Celebration.
The governor of Lagos has simply won re-election in reduced-turnout community voting, figures have shown, marking a victory for Nigeria’s ruling party just months following the industrial capital backed the opposition in a disputed presidential election.
According to the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC), incumbent Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) get together had much more than 736,000 votes following votes were tallied in districts symbolizing 95 % of voters on Sunday.
His closest rival, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Celebration, secured 292,000 votes, according to the figures unveiled by the INEC.
The turnout was just a smaller portion of the seven million registered voters in Africa’s largest megacity, which has a populace of additional than 20 million folks.
The Lagos election was the highest profile amid races for powerful governorships in 28 of Nigeria’s 36 states, as well as for state assemblies across the nation.
The race in Lagos had been envisioned to be shut following opposition Labour prospect Peter Obi obtained the most votes in the condition during final month’s disputed presidential election, which was won overall by Bola Tinubu of the APC.
Tinubu himself is a former Lagos governor, who ran the condition from 1999 to 2007 and has given that been noticed as instrumental in finding his successors there, like Sanwo-Olu.
Obi has claimed he was robbed of victory by rampant fraud, and political analysts explained the dealing with of past month’s presidential election could have discouraged some voters from participating in Saturday’s regional polls.
Some officers from the INEC who presented effects in Lagos on Sunday reported some ballot packing containers experienced been stolen, but stated this was not common enough to have an effect on the consequence of the vote.
Voting was postponed to Sunday at 10 polling stations in a Lagos neighbourhood subsequent disagreements in between INEC officers and voters above the area of polling units. Remaining results were envisioned afterwards.
Governors wield huge influence in Africa’s most populous country, and their aid can enable make a decision who turns into president.
Some governors preside over states whose once-a-year budgets are even larger than those people of some tiny African international locations. Lagos has an annual funds of $4bn.
In northeastern Adamawa, a conservative and mostly Muslim condition, electoral officers had been collating effects immediately after a race that could see Nigeria’s initially female elected governor.
Voters had been even now casting ballots in two districts of oil-creating Rivers condition, the place the INEC unsuccessful to produce voting resources.
