Nigerian presidential seeker Peter Obi, whose crusade attracted youthful people and civic choosers fed up with loose politics, won most votes in the marketable mecca of Lagos state, where Africa’s biggest megacity is located. Nigeria’s electoral commission began publicizing state-by-state results in the public choices on Sunday, though it isn’t anticipated to name a victor in the race to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari for several days.
Nearly 90 million were eligible to bounce in the choices to choose a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari, with numerous hoping for a new leader to attack instability, profitable malaise and widening poverty. Voting on Saturday was substantially peaceful, but there were some incidents of some polling stations being ransacked. Numerous others opened veritably late in Lagos and other metropolises. Choosers stayed overnight to watch over the original count at polling stations.
Sash of the Labour Party got 582454 votes, just ahead of 572,606 for former Lagos governor Bola Tinubu for the governing All Revolutionaries Congress party, electoral commission data showed on Monday. Lagos was preliminarily Tinubu’s main fort. Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition People’s Democratic Party( PDP) got 75,750 votes. Lagos contributes about 40 per cent of the gross domestic product of Africa’s biggest frugality. Since 1999, the state has suggested parties supported by Tinubu, who has long been the most important politician in Lagos. Obi’s crusade called on choosers to reject the two parties that have run Africa’s most vibrant nation for a quarter century, under whose governance corruption has flourished and instability has spread across the country.
He was most popular with the youth, but especially civic, fairly educated choosers with access to smartphones and social media. But he still faces an uphill struggle in pastoral areas with a less sophisticated followership. Obi, 61, was most popular with the youthful, but especially civic, fairly educated choosers with access to smartphones and social media. But he still faces an uphill struggle in pastoral areas with a less sophisticated followership.