There are indications that the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is comfortably leading in Lagos, Ekiti, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, and Oyo States, while the Labour Party’s Peter Obi was the dominant in the South East as the results of the Presidential election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday, February 25, 2023, are coming in.
Peter Obi also made some inroads in Lagos State and former strongholds of the PDP in Edo and Delta.
As at last night, the Labour Party presidential candidate had also won nine of the 13 polling units at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja.
But his performance in the North was abysmal where the APC and the PDP were sharing the votes in the three geo-political zones in the North. The APC was doing well in Yobe and Sokoto State at press time.
Some of the results yet to be confirmed by INEC are as follows:
Lagos State
Ajeromi/Ifelodun LGA
APC – 21,102
LP – 12,417
PDP – 3,750
Amuwo-Odofin LGA
APC – 21,387
LP – 12,583
PDP – 3,836
Alimosho LGA
APC – 56,172
LP – 32,992
PDP – 10,071
Ikeja LGA
APC – 45,586
LP – 26,725
PDP – 7,847
Ikorodu LGA
APC – 64,956
LP – 38118
PDP – 11,057
Yobe State:
Potiskum LGA
APC – 25,845
PDP – 6,787
LP – 0
Yunusari LGA
APC – 15,177
PDP – 3,839 LP – 0
Nguru LGA
APC – 15,962
PDP – 4,033
LP – 0
Yusufari LGA
APC – 14,197
PDP – 3,591
LP – 0
Bade LGA
APC -7,667
PDP – 1,982
LP – 0
Bursari LGA:
APC – 3,815
PDP – 986
LP – 0
Damaturu LG
APC- 8,957
PDP – 2,316
LP – 0
Fika LGA:
APC – 9470
PDP – 2,432
LP – 0
Fune LGA:
APC – 10, 677
PDP – 2,760
LP – 0
Geidam LGA:
APC – 6,601
PDP – 1,709
LP – 0
Sokoto State:
Shagari LGA
APC – 8,869
NNPP – 2,995
PDP – 7,891
LP – 0
Sokoto North LGA
APC – 21,239 NNPP – 7,167
PDP – 18,886
Sokoto South LGA
APC – 23,637
NNPP – 7,971
PDP – 21,020
Result from Sen. Kashim Shettima’s Lamisula/Jabbamari polling unit 023, Maiduguri
APC – 126 votes
PDP – 23 votes
Labour Party = 0 vote
Mallam Nuhu Ribadu’s Polling Unit 022 Aliyu Mustapha College Yola, Adamawa
APC: 140
PDP: 68
LP: 11
The elections were generally peaceful, though INEC and the security agencies reported violence and disruptions in some states. The commission said fresh elections would be held where necessary while the police arrested some people said to have breached the peace.
Five persons were confirmed dead before and during the exercise. The APC flag bearer said, after voting in Ikeja, Lagos that he was “too confident” of victory.