President Muhammadu Buhari, Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has polled 580,825 votes to defeat his closest rival, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State.
Abubakar scored 448,015 to come second at the end of the state final collation of the Presidential election results from the 20 local government areas of the state.
Prof. Felix Salako, the Vice Chancellor, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun was the INEC state collation officer.
The LGA collation officers properly presented the results one after the other as they arrived at the collation centre before they were accepted by Salako.
At the end of the collation, Salako said the state had a registered voters of 6,313,507, with accredited voters at 1, 196, 490.
According to him, the valid votes are 1,089,567, total rejected votes at 67,023 while votes cast stand at 1,157, 590 in the presidential election.
Reeling out the results of each political parties, he said Accord polled 5, 948 votes, AAC, 8, 910; ADC, 2915; ADP, 1,262 and ANN polled 6,946.
The professor added that APA had 1495 votes, DPP polled 1,372 votes, PCP got 8,458, and SNC scored 1766.
The other political parties that participated in the poll had less than 1000 votes each.
According to him, Form 6OE will be pasted at the collation centre when duly signed by the party agents.
Various party agents took turn to sign the collated results for onward transmission to Abuja for the final collation.
He also handed over a copy of the result to each of the party agents.
Salako gave opportunity to each of the agents to raise any observation on the collated results as they were being presented local government by local government.
According to the collated results, APC won in 15 LGAs while the PDP won in five LGAs after the exercise which commenced at the INEC Office, Yaba and Sunday night ended at some minutes after 7:00 p.m. on Monday.
Buhari defeated his closest challenger, Abubakar in the Apapa, Ikorodu, Ibeju-Lekki, Ikeja, Epe, Badagry, Lagos Island, Agege, Ifako-Ijaiye, Lagos Mainland, Mushin, Oshodi-Isolo, Somolu, Kosofe and Alimosho.
However, PDP defeated APC in Surulere, Eti-Osa, Ojo, Ajeromi-Ifelodun and Amuwo-Odofin LGAs.
The collation officer said that it was his duty to announce the scores of each political parties in the presidential election held on Feb. 23 in Lagos.
73 presidential candidates participated in the Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly election held across the 36 states of the federation and Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
