The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, as the winner of the governorship election held in the state on Saturday, March 18, 2023.

Sanwo-Olu dusted off competition from his two major challengers; Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party and Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to record a landslide victory.

In the final result announced in the early hours of Monday, March 20, 2023, the INEC Returning Officer and Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Prof. Adeyinka Oladiji, said the governor polled a total of APC - 762,134 votes to emerge victorious.

His closest rival, Rhodes-Vivour scored a total of 312,329 votes to finish second while Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, polled 62, 449 votes to finish a distant third.

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