Kunle Adelabu
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has been re – elected and declared winner of the governorship election in Lagos State by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, polled a total of 762,134 to defeat Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party (LP) and Abdulazeez Adeniran of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
The LP candidate polled 312,329 votes, to emerge second, while the PDP got 62,449 votes.
The results were announced by the Returning Officer, Prof Adenike Temifayo-Oladiji, Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA.
According to the RO, the number of valid votes were 1,155,678; rejected votes – 17,953; total votes cast – 1,173,631; accredited votes – 1,182,620.