Explainer: What INEC’s 2023 results in Lagos, Oyo, Osun actually reveal.
Obi polled 582,454 votes (45.81 per cent), while Tinubu, the APC candidate, followed with 572,606 votes (45.04 per cent) The post Explainer: What INEC’s 2023 results in Lagos, Oyo, Osun actually reveal appeared first on Vanguard News .
By Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA Lagos, Oyo and Osun states each backed a different candidate in the February 25, 2023 presidential election, according to the results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Lagos produced the closest of the three contests.
The gap was 9,848 votes, less than one percentage point. Atiku trailed far behind with 75,750 votes (5.96 per cent), and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, had 8,442 votes (0.66 per cent). Tinubu polled 449,884 votes (55.58 per cent), well ahead of Atiku’s 182,977 votes (22.60 per cent). His lead of 266,907 votes was the widest of the three states.
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