Owing to their strategic functions in Africa's preeminent superpower, the key cities of Abuja and Lagos have been the best representations of Nigeria's vast diversity since the 1996 establishment of all 36 Nigerian states.

Since the dawn of the Fourth Republic and the end of military dictatorship in Nigeria, Abuja and Lagos have profited from the federal government's encouragement of ethnic immigration.

These areas rank first and second in terms of internal revenue generated in 2021 (the most recent government statistics), making them the wealthiest regions in Nigeria.

Therefore, it is no surprise that no elected president in the Fourth Republic has ever simultaneously lost the Federal Capital Territory and Lagos State.

Before 2023, Olusegun Obasanjo of the PDP was the only elected president to fail to win Lagos, losing by a margin of almost 1,300,000 votes to Olu Falae of the APP/AD in 1991.
Nonetheless, the president consolidated his gains with a narrow victory in the FCT.

In the next general elections in 2003, the incumbent president became the first to win the FCT and Lagos, achieving this by a margin of about one million votes.

Goodluck Jonathan accomplished this feat a second time in 2011, when he won both regions handily on his route to becoming president.

Based on this pattern, the preliminary results of the Presidential Elections of 2023 indicate that Peter Obi would likely become the next president of Nigeria, having won both regions.

The chart below depicts the historical victors of Lagos and the FCT in national elections, as well as the ultimate president elected:

IyaebeTheGreat:
There’s always a first time. Please shun violence.

Danisaint112:
Atiku was busy doing his rigging in the core North while Tinubu doing his nationwide. Except the east that gave them strong resistance.

The yorubas tried. No doubt. But this election has also proved somethings;

1. The Yorubas are not as intelligent as we all hype them to be. As a matter of fact they are as comprised as the Core North in this election.

2. The igbos are always straight. They always work with one mind, very smart but highly underrated when it comes to intelligence ranking.
It has always been their nature they would tell you their mind, do it and damn the consequences. One reason the are hated all round.

3. WIKE is not what he portrays (fighting for southern interest). As a matter of fact he is evil and is fighting for his stomach alone. Evidence of the attrocities he committed in Rivers State to lay waste the votes of LP Supporters are emerging.

4. The whole BVAS stuff and security deployment by Buhari was pure FRAUD, SHAM, SCAM, 419. It was all a distraction to make us feel he is working.

If INEC decides to be useless then my we the citizens might as well make them more useless.

We in Abuja is just waiting for INEC to do their own finish. Then we will start our own.

Tinubu will never be president of Nigeria and if by chance 0.01% he becomes president I will never call him my president. 😐

Zincfingers:

Osu
You godforsaken sore loser.
Useless nyamuri. You think we don't know how you rigged in your blighted region abi

IyaebeTheGreat:
There’s always a first time. Please shun violence.

NothingDoMe:
I support your stance and your other posts I've seen. Well done.

However there's pressing issues that has to be addressed for Nigerias stability. Will INEC interpret the law as Falana said or as the law is written.

Issues like this are what brings about a speedy closure or prolonged engagement.

Amotolongbo:
There is always a first time to everything

IyaebeTheGreat:
There’s always a first time. Please shun violence.

IyaebeTheGreat:
That law does not apply here. Is Abuja a state?

cursedAbiola:
you created this moniker for this purpose

but too late for you
we'll resist this to the last

Zandena:
This is a lie from pit of hell! Buhari lost both FCT and Lagos to PDP in 2019 and yet he won! You can only deceive your gullible ones but not intelligent people.
You're bitterred by the resounding victory of the Muslim-Muslim ticket which you sworn to stop.
But Muslims are not your mates in Nigeria! The character of Christians in states where they have majority like plateau, Benue, SE and SS shows they will deny Muslims even VP position if they have that majority advantage nationally.

Zandena:
This is a lie from pit of hell! Buhari lost both FCT and Lagos to PDP in 2019 and yet he won! You can only deceive your gullible ones but not intelligent people.
You're bitterred by the resounding victory of the Muslim-Muslim ticket which you sworn to stop.
But Muslims are not your mates in Nigeria! The character of Christians in states where they have majority like plateau, Benue, SE and SS shows they will deny Muslims even VP position if they have that majority advantage nationally.

Zandena:
This is a lie from pit of hell! Buhari lost both FCT and Lagos to PDP in 2019 and yet he won! You can only deceive your gullible ones but not intelligent people.
You're bitterred by the resounding victory of the Muslim-Muslim ticket which you sworn to stop.
But Muslims are not your mates in Nigeria! The character of Christians in states where they have majority like plateau, Benue, SE and SS shows they will deny Muslims even VP position if they have that majority advantage nationally.

IyaebeTheGreat:
There’s always a first time. Please shun violence.

Danisaint112:
Atiku was busy doing his rigging in the core North while Tinubu doing his nationwide. Except the east that gave them strong resistance.

The yorubas tried. No doubt. But this election has also proved somethings;

1. The Yorubas are not as intelligent as we all hype them to be. As a matter of fact they are as comprised as the Core North in this election.

2. The igbos are always straight. They always work with one mind, very smart but highly underrated when it comes to intelligence ranking.
It has always been their nature they would tell you their mind, do it and damn the consequences. One reason the are hated all round.

3. WIKE is not what he portrays (fighting for southern interest). As a matter of fact he is evil and is fighting for his stomach alone. Evidence of the attrocities he committed in Rivers State to lay waste the votes of LP Supporters are emerging.

4. The whole BVAS stuff and security deployment by Buhari was pure FRAUD, SHAM, SCAM, 419. It was all a distraction to make us feel he is working.

If INEC decides to be useless then my we the citizens might as well make them more useless.

We in Abuja is just waiting for INEC to do their own finish. Then we will start our own.

Tinubu will never be president of Nigeria and if by chance 0.01% he becomes president I will never call him my president. 😐

IyaebeTheGreat:
There’s always a first time. Please shun violence.