Latest report reaching P.M. News this afternoon showed that the Action Congress (AC) has swept the governorship and House of Assembly polls in Lagos State. The results of yesterday’s election showed that the state governorship candidate under the platform of AC, Barrister Babatunde Fashola (SAN) has won the election, while the party has also won 37 House of Assembly seats.

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP ) is trailing AC in a distant second place, having captured only Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Council. The margin of victory here was a few hundred votes. Action Congress has won in 12 local government areas of the state, out of the 13 results so far released at the local government headquarters and authenticated by INEC at the time of going to press this afternoon. The results showed that Fashola won between 55-60 per cent of the votes cast in many local councils and about 70 per cent in Alimosho and Mushin where the PDP had hoped to upstage the Action Congress.

P.M.News also learnt that the AC candidate won about 60 per cent of the votes declared in Shomolu local council. The result of the governorship election on Lagos Island shows AC garnered 27,181 votes, while PDP got 10,153 votes and DPA got 2,651 votes. The highlight of the election on the Island was that the PDP again lost in Chief Bode George’s ward as it happened in 2003 and 1999. In the Mainland, the party’s governorship candidate, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro was beaten in his ward in Ebute-Meta, losing 150 votes to Fashola’s 1000 votes plus in the polling booth in front of his former house on Jebba Street. .

AC’s candidate, Fashola victory also had a landslide victory in Alimosho council area with 61,457 votes as against PDP’s Musiliu Obanikoro, who got 32,015 votes.

It was another landslide victory for Fashola in Mushin where he got 61,683. Obanikoro got 21,719 votes and DPA’s Jimi Agbaje got 5 ,393 votes.

AC also had a clean sweep of the governorship election in Agege where the party’s candidate got 37,168 votes as against the 18,230 votes garnered by the PDP candidate.

Results from Oshodi, Apapa, Eti-Osa, Epe and other local governments also placed AC in the lead in the governorship elections. PDP is placed a distant second while DPA is third.

Up till press time, political observers were in a quandary as to why INEC has not released the result of the Lagos election. The frequent visits of the PDP chieftain, Chief Bode George to the commission’s headquarters in Onike more than three times since midnight have triggered concerns, as to whether the PDP was trying to exert pressure on INEC to tamper with the results already declared in all the councils in the state.

The concern is coming amid the clearing of the Lagos poll by local and international observers as free and fair.

Said a concerned politician in the state:”If no hanky-panky is done, Fashola’s victory is assured. But we learnt Bode George has been making frantic efforts to get Obasanjo to put pressure on INEC to either withhold the result or cancel it. He is doing all these after he found that all the efforts by the party to rig the polls have failed.”

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Baba Fash has won,

Thenews is not a credible source PULEEEZZZ. It's controlled by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Whilst I believe that the AC would win Lagos and that Fashola as an individual is more credible than Koro and therefore has my support, the tone of reporting by thenews is biased, prejudiced.

It triumphantly reports that Lagos has been won by AC, whilst stating that INEC has "given" Ekiki to PDP (whatever that means).