Babajide Sanwo-Olu has been re-elected as the Governor of Lagos State.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the results at its state collation centre on Monday morning.

He polled a total of 762,134 votes to defeat Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party who scored 312,329 votes, followed by Abdul-Azeez Adediran aka Jandor with 62,449 votes.

Sanwo-Olu was declared the winner at 1:15 am on Monday, almost 48 hours after the electoral exercise commenced.

INEC Declares NNPP’s Kabir Declares Winner in Kano

Also, the New Nigeria Peoples Party’s (NNPP’s) candidate, Yusuf Kabir has  been declared the winner of the keenly contested March 18 governorship election in Kano.

According to INEC, Kabir scored 1,019,602 votes to defeat his closest contender, Nasir Gawuna of the APC who polled 890,705 votes.

“That Yusuf Kabir of NNPP having satisfied the requirement of the law is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” the Returning Officer, Prof Ahmad Ibrahim declared.

Gawuna was endorsed by the incumbent governor and APC powerbroker, Abdullahi Ganduje whose two-term of eight years end on May 29, 2023.

For years, Ganduje and Kwankwaso have remained arch-political rivals over the control of Nigeria’s unarguably most populated state with a commensurate number of voters, the highest nationwide.

Recall that Ganduje was Kwankwaso’s deputy when the latter was governor from 2011 May to May 2015 before they fell apart after the 2015 elections which saw the emergence of Ganduje as governor. Before then, Kwankwaso was also Kano governor from 1999 to 2003.