Osinbajo loses polling unit to Atiku In Lagos

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Saturday failed to deliver his unit, with the All Progressives Congress losing the presidential and the National Assembly polls to the Peoples Democratic Party.

Osinbajo polling unit, 033, is located on Victoria Garden City, Lekki.

The APC got 167, while the Peoples Democratic Congress polled 244 for the House of Representatives. For Senate, the APC polled  228 against PDPs 378. The APC got 197 in the presidential poll, while the PDP got 384.

Earlier, Osinbajo said free and fair elections was a massive move for democracy.

He said, “I think that every time we have a chance to vote to choose our leaders in a free and fair election, it is a massive move for democracy.”

The presidential candidate of the Alliance for New Nigeria, Mr Fela Durotoye, who also voted at the VP’s polling unit, said Nigerians would win if the elections were credible.

Also, the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, says the presidential and the National Assembly elections would be the best so far in the country.

The governor spoke shortly after he cast his vote at ward A5, polling unit 033, Epe, Lagos, in company with his wife, Bolanle, around 10am.

Ambode, who won his polling unit for the All Progressives Congress, noted that Lagosians were cooperative.

The APC polled 131 against the Peoples Democratic Party votes of 116.

He said, “I am delighted that Lagosians have been cooperative. We want to commend INEC which has been up to the task. This election is going to be the best ever in the country.”

At the polling unit of the deputy governorship candidate of the APC in Lagos, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, voting was delayed.

One of our correspondents arrived at the Ward A4, polling unit 002, Epe, around 11am, but Hamzat could not vote until 11.40am because the card readers malfunctioned.

Later, he told journalists that the APC would win the elections.

“The chance of my party is great; I have no doubt that Nigerians will vote right.”

A former governor of Lagos State and Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, also commended the process after he and his wife, Abimbola, cast their votes around 10.39am and 10.42am, respectively.

He delivered his unit, winning 223 for the APC in presidential, while the PDP got 126 votes.

Also, the National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who commended the election, won his polling unit 047, Ward 3, in Alausa, Ikeja for the APC in the presidential poll.

The reports showed that the APC polled 121 votes as against 53 polled by the PDP.

The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, who cast his vote at Orile-Agege Ward E unit 019, also said he was impressed with the turnout of voters in his constituency.

In Ketu, Ojota, Agege and Ogba areas of Lagos State, the ad-hoc workers of the INEC deployed in polling units lamented that out of average of 700 registered voters per unit only about 100 came out to vote per unit.

A former senator in the state, Senator Ganiyu Solomon, who cast his vote at exactly noon at unit 018, Anipele II in Olorunshogo, Mushin, in the Mushin LGA, said, “The turnout of voters was good; we should commend INEC.”

Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party defeated the ruling All Progressives Congress at the Femi Okunnu polling unit 019, Lateef Jakande, Ikoyi, where the APC governorship candidate in Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, voted in the presidential poll.

The PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, polled 54 votes to defeat President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC, who got 48 votes.

However, the APC won the senatorial poll with 57 votes ahead of the PDP, which scored 50 votes.

It was same for the House of Representatives poll, with the APC defeating the PDP with 44 votes to 42 votes.

Musician, Bankole Wellington (Banky W) of the Modern Democratic Party, emerged second runner-up with 22 votes behind the APC and the PDP in the House of Representatives poll.

Earlier, Sanwo-Olu said but for the late start of voting, he was satisfied with the electoral process in the polling unit.

He said, “I think the process is transparent but I think we can do a bit better with timing.”

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