Buhari leads in Lagos with wide margin

Kazeem Ugbodaga

Early results in Lagos indicated that the All Progressives Congress, APC, Candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari is winning Lagos State by landslide.

Results collated in different polling units in Lagos showed that Buhari was leading President Goodluck Jonathan in the elections.

In polling unit 047, Bola Tinubu’s ward in Alausa, Buhari polled 180 votes while Jonathan scored 55. In polling Unit 008, Ward C, Buhari scored 95 as against 55 polled by the president.

In polling unit 003, Ikeja, Buhari polled 67 and Jonathan 58 while in polling unit 009, ward F, in Ikeja, Buhari also led Jonathan by 49 to 39 votes.

In polling Unit 38, Ward B, Buhari defeated Jonathan by 75 to 53 votes while in Polling Unit 037, Alausa, Buhari led Jonathan by 82 to 28 votes.

In Polling Unit 012, Ward C, Jonathan defeated Buhari by 69 to 65 votes and also in Polling Unit 5, in Ikeja, Jonathan defeated Buhari by 86 to 67 votes.

In Ward G3, where Governor Babatunde Fashola voted, Buhari won by landslide, scoring 317 votes as against 135 votes polled by Jonathan.

At polling Unit CPU 032 in Ifako Ijaiye, Buhari won by scoring 83 as against Jonathan’s 77 votes.

In Agege Local Government, Ward 11, unit 006, Buhari led Jonathan by 23 to 10 while in polling unit 007 in the same ward, Buhari won by 130 to 69 votes.

In Polling unit 009, Ward II, Agege, Buhari won by scoring 117 votes, while Jonathan polled 71. At polling unit 010, ward II, Buhari defeated Jonathan by scoring 139 votes as against Jonathan’s 81.

In Ward II, unit 011, Buhari won by 95 to 35 votes against Jonathan. Likewise, in polling unit 012, ward II, Agege, Buhari won by 66 votes as against 54 polled by Jonathan.

In the ward of the PDP Lagos Governorship candidate, Jimi Agbaje, Buhari won by landslide, polling127 votes as against 60 scored by Jonathan.