Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress has been declared the winner of governorship election in Lagos State by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Sanwo-olu defeated his closest rival, Mr Jimi Agbaje of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, with a wide margin of 533,304 votes.
After, painstakingly collating the results, INEC State Returning Officer, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede declared that “having polled 739, 445 votes, Sanwo-Olu of the APC has been returned winner in the exercise”.
He announced that Agbaje of the PDP, polled 206,141 votes in a contest conducted across the 20 Local Government Areas of the state.
The APC candidate won all the 20 local governments in the state.
Similarly, the APC won all the 40 state House of Assembly seats in the state.
