For the APC in Lagos State, all is well that ends well. The Party regained momentum from a sluggish performance in the last presidential election and showed its dominance in Lagos state; defeating both the Labour Party and the Peoples Democratic Party with a wide margin, thereby keeping Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu as the Landlord in Alausa for another four years.

It was a hard-fought battle that saw the politicians taking their gloves off, with their supporters resorting to the use of unethical languages, preaching ethnicity and religious divisions and rendering different historical narratives about Lagos, all in a bid to have an edge and gain advantage.

In the early hours of Monday, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu was declared as the winner of the highly competitive governorship election. He won with the majority votes, call it a landslide victory, defeating his closest opponent Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party with a difference of 449, 805 votes.

Results from the 20 local governments in the state show that the incumbent defeated 15 other candidates in the race vying for the governorship position. He won in 19 local governments areas of the state, losing only in one.

Although the elections were controversially marred by voter intimidation and low turnouts in some parts of the state. Similarly, the election had to be postponed to March 19th in Eti-Osa local government due to disagreement between the voters and the electoral officers on the location of the polling stations.

In the declaration of results made by the Returning Officer, Governor Sanwo-Olu polled 762,134 votes ahead of Gbadebo Rhodes of the Labour Party who got 312,329 votes, and Adediran Olajide Abdulazeez of the Peoples Democratic Party who polled 62,449 votes.

According to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), there are 7,060,195 registered voters in Lagos state overall. However, only 1,173 631 voters voted in the governorship election on March 18 out of a total of 6,214,970 people who obtained their permanent voter cards. 1,155 678 votes were shared among all the contenders, but 17,953 votes were rejected.

The Returning Officer Professor Adenike Temidayo Oladiji, the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology Akure in her declaration stated that ” I declare Sanwo-Olu Babajide Olusola of the APC, having satisfied the requirement of the law by scoring 25% in two third of the local governments of the state and also having the highest number of votes cast and meeting the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and is declared elected”.

Below is the breakdown of the results of the elections local government by local governments

LAGOS ISLAND LGA
APC: 37, 760
LP: 1, 317
PDP: 1, 783

2. APAPA LGA
APC: 21,007
LP: 4,157
PDP: 2,487

3. EPE LGA
APC: 29,614
LP: 1,515
PDP: 3,272

4. Agege LGA
APC: 35,845
LP: 8,486
PDP: 3,176

5. Ajeromi/Ifelodun LGA
APC: 39,798
LP: 19,821
PDP: 2,607

6. Ikeja LGA
APC: 32,273
LP: 15,174
PDP: 1,616

7. Mushin LGA
APC: 52,249
LP: 11,759
PDP: 4,006

8. Surulere LGA
APC: 42,451
LP: 28,069
PDP: 2,200