The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is in early lead as INEC collated presidential election results of 17 out of 20 local government areas of Lagos State.
APC won 10 of the local government results declared so far while the Labour Party’s Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi, won in seven in the closely contested presidential election.
The candidate of the PDP, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is coming behind in a distant third.
The exercise, which started at about 6.30 p.m. on Sunday evening at INEC Media Centre at the commission’s headquarters in Yaba, was stopped intermittently to wait for the arrival of results from some local governments.
The yet to be presented local government results are those of Ojo and Alimosho local government areas while result from Mushin, though presented but yet to be approved and accepted.
The State Collation Centre Offficer, Prof. Adenike Oladiji, the Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, who announced a break at 4.a.m. said that the collation would resume at 10.a.m. on Monday.
APC won in Agege, Apapa, Badagry, Epe, Ibeju-Lekki, Ifako-Ijaiye, Ikorodu, Lagos Island, Surulere and Lagos Mainland local government areas
