All Progressive Congress’s Babajide Sanwo-Olu led the voting with a transparent margin over his closest rival from the Labour Social gathering.
The governor of Lagos has simply gained re-election in low-turnout native voting, figures have proven, marking a victory for Nigeria’s ruling celebration simply weeks after the business capital backed the opposition in a disputed presidential election.
In response to the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC), incumbent Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) celebration had greater than 736,000 votes after votes have been tallied in districts representing 95 p.c of voters on Sunday.
His closest rival, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Social gathering, secured 292,000 votes, in line with the figures launched by the INEC.
The turnout was only a small fraction of the seven million registered voters in Africa’s largest megacity, which has a inhabitants of greater than 20 million individuals.
The Lagos election was the very best profile amongst races for highly effective governorships in 28 of Nigeria’s 36 states, in addition to for state assemblies throughout the nation.
The race in Lagos had been anticipated to be shut after opposition Labour candidate Peter Obi obtained essentially the most votes within the state throughout final month’s disputed presidential election, which was gained total by Bola Tinubu of the APC.
Tinubu himself is a former Lagos governor, who ran the state from 1999 to 2007 and has since been seen as instrumental in selecting his successors there, together with Sanwo-Olu.
Obi has mentioned he was robbed of victory by rampant fraud, and political analysts mentioned the dealing with of final month’s presidential election might have discouraged some voters from taking part in Saturday’s regional polls.
Some officers from the INEC who offered ends in Lagos on Sunday reported some poll packing containers had been stolen, however mentioned this was not widespread sufficient to have an effect on the end result of the vote.
Voting was postponed to Sunday at 10 polling stations in a Lagos neighbourhood following disagreements between INEC officers and voters over the situation of polling items. Last outcomes have been anticipated later.
Governors wield vast affect in Africa’s most populous nation, and their help may also help resolve who turns into president.
Some governors preside over states whose annual budgets are larger than these of some small African international locations. Lagos has an annual funds of $4bn.
In northeastern Adamawa, a conservative and largely Muslim state, electoral officers have been collating outcomes after a race that might see Nigeria’s first feminine elected governor.
Voters have been nonetheless casting ballots in two districts of oil-producing Rivers state, the place the INEC did not ship voting supplies.
