Lagos: Island – Fashola in early lead

Posted by admin Governors, Lagos, State News Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

The incumbent Governor of Lagos State and governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, appears to be set for a massive win as the election results tumbling-in from various polling units across the state show him leading his closest rival, Dr. Ade Dosunmu of the Peoples Democratic Party by a wide margin.

In the ward where Dosunmu voted, the governorship elections ended with ACN polling 156 votes, while PDP polled 90. In Fashola’s ward in Surulere, the ACN polled 317, while the PDP got 16.

The pattern was replicated in many polling units where elections took place.

The candidates of the ACN in the House of Assembly election in the two polling units also defeated their PDP candidates.

Results from most of the polling units revealed that the ACN candidates in both the governorship and House of Assembly elections were coasting home to victory.

The ACN party agent in one of the polling booths, Mr. Adeola Olaleye, who said that the party would win, hinged his optimism on the quality of the candidates and the party’s performance in the state.

Asked why the party’s candidate, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, lost the presidential election in the state, Olaleye said that voters only picked the candidate of their choice.

“I think Lagosians just decided to vote for the person of Jonathan and not PDP. The result here today has shown that the ACN is the party to beat in Lagos,” he said.

Also the agent of the PDP in the polling unit, Mr. Ebube Eze and his CPC counterparts, Mallam Nura Muhammed, described the election as free and fair in their units.

Fifteen candidates from 15 political parties vied for the governorship election in the state, while 371 candidates from about eight political parties contested to become members of the 40-man state House of Assembly.

The ACN in Lagos had become jittery after President Goodluck Jonathan won 65.89 per cent of the 2,019,116 votes cast in the state, to beat Ribadu, who scored 427,203 or 21.96 per cent to a distant second position during the April 16 presidential election.

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