Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has won the presidential election in Lagos state.
He defeated Bola Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), after the votes were calculated from all the 20 LGAs in the state.
Tinubu is a former Lagos governor and the state is historically his stronghold.
The breakdown:
APC: 572,606
LP: 582,354
NNPP: 8,442
PDP: 75,750
SDP: 772
Accredited voters: 1,347,152
Total Valid votes: 1,271,451
Rejected votes: 64,278
Total votes cast: 1,335,729
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