The governor of Lagos has without problems gained re-election in low-turnout nearby vote casting, figures have shown, marking a victory for Nigeria`s ruling birthday birthday celebration simply weeks after the economic capital subsidized the competition in a disputed presidential election. According to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), incumbent Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) birthday birthday celebration had extra than 736,000 votes after votes have been tallied in districts representing ninety five percentage of electorate on Sunday.
His closest rival, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party, secured 292,000 votes, in step with the figures launched with the aid of using the INEC. The turnout turned into only a small fraction of the seven million registered electorate in Africa`s biggest megacity, which has a populace of extra than 20 million people.
The Lagos election turned into the very best profile amongst races for effective governorships in 28 of Nigeria`s 36 states, in addition to for nation assemblies throughout the country. The race in Lagos were predicted to be near after competition Labour candidate Peter Obi acquired the maximum votes withinside the nation at some point of remaining month`s disputed presidential election, which turned into gained general with the aid of using Bola Tinubu of the APC.
Tinubu himself is a former Lagos governor, who ran the nation from 1999 to 2007 and has because been visible as instrumental in selecting his successors there, which includes Sanwo-Olu. Obi has stated he turned into robbed of victory with the aid of using rampant fraud, and political analysts stated the managing of remaining month`s presidential election should have discouraged a few electorate from taking part in Saturday`s local polls.
Some officers from the INEC who offered consequences in Lagos on Sunday stated a few ballot bins were stolen, however stated this turned into now no longer great sufficient to have an effect on the final results of the vote. Voting turned into postponed to Sunday at 10 polling stations in a Lagos neighbourhood following disagreements among INEC officers and electorate over the place of polling units. Final consequences have been predicted later.
Governors wield extensive affect in Africa`s maximum populous nation, and their help can assist determine who turns into president. Some governors preside over states whose annual budgets are larger than the ones of a few small African countries. Lagos has an annual finances of $4bn.
In northeastern Adamawa, a conservative and in large part Muslim nation, electoral officers have been collating consequences after a race that would see Nigeria`s first girl elected governor. Voters have been nonetheless casting ballots in districts of oil-generating Rivers nation, wherein the INEC did not supply vote casting materials.
