President Muhammadu Buhari and Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has polled 580,825 votes to defeat his closest rival, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of PDP in Lagos State.
Buhari’s closest contender, Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored 448,015 to come second at the end of the state final collation of the Presidential election results from the 20 local government areas of the state.
Prof. Felix Salako, the Vice Chancellor, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun was the INEC state collation officer who collated results of the 20 LGAs.
LGA collation officers correctly presented the results one after the other as they arrived at the collation centre before they were accepted by Salako.
At the end of the gathering, Salako said the state had registered voters of 6,313,507, with accredited voters at 1, 196, 490.
According to him, the valid votes are 1,089,567, total rejected votes at 67,023 while votes cast stand at 1,157, 590 in the presidential election.
Reeling out the results of each political parties, he said Accord polled 5, 948 votes, AAC, 8, 910; ADC, 2915; ADP, 1,262 and ANN polled 6,946.
The professor further said that APA had 1495 votes, DPP polled 1,372 votes, PCP got 8,458, and SNC scored 1766.
The other political parties that participated in the poll had less than 1,000 votes each.
According to him, Form 6OE will be pasted at the collation center after duly signed by the party agents.