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In the election, Lagos State voted for Peter Obi (LP); Obi won the state with 45.8% of the vote, beating Bola Tinubu (APC) at 45.0% and Atiku Abubakar (PDP) at 6.0%. Considered a massive upset—especially considering Lagos is Tinubu's home state and projections had favored Tinubu—the result led to increased focus on the gubernatorial race. [103]
Incumbent APC Governor Akinwunmi Ambode lost to the APC flag bearer Babajide Sanwo-Olu at a direct primary election in October 2018 [1] and hence ineligible to run for second term under APC. Babajide Sanwo-Olu won in a landslide against Jimi Agbaje of the PDP who had previously run unsuccessfully for Lagos state governor twice. From 1999, Lagos ...
A total of six candidates registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission to contest in the election. [24] AD Governor Bola Tinubu won re-election for a second term, defeating PDP's Funsho Williams and four minor party candidates.
A total of 22 candidates registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission to contest in the election. The AC candidate, Babatunde Fashola, won, defeating PDP' Musuliu Obanikoro, DPA's Jimi Agbaje, and 19 other minor party candidates. The total number of registered voters in the state was 4,204,000.
An election for Governor of Lagos State took place on 11 April 2015. All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Akinwunmi Ambode, who is a former accountant general of Lagos State, defeated People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Jimi Agbaje and Alliance for Democracy (AD) candidate Bolaji Ogunseye. The governor and deputy governor are elected ...
The party held its indirect presidential primary on 8 June 2022 in Abuja and nominated Bola Tinubu, the former Governor of Lagos State. [6] [7] In mid-June, the APC submitted the name of Kabir Ibrahim Masari—a politician and party operative from Katsina State—as a placeholder vice presidential nominee to be substituted at a later date. [8]
Peter Obi—the nominee of the Labour Party—won the state by nearly 10,000 votes, a 0.77% margin, in a massive upset over former state Governor Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The other two major contenders, Atiku Abubakar ( Peoples Democratic Party ) and Rabiu Kwankwaso ( New Nigeria Peoples Party ), trailed with ...
The 2019 Nigerian gubernatorial elections were held for state governors in 31 out of 36 Nigerian states.All but three were held on 2 March 2019 with the election for Rivers State being postponed until 4 April, [1] while the Kogi State and Bayelsa State elections were both held on 16 November.