By Wale Odunsi Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, on Saturday defeated Bola Tinubu in the Oniru area of Lago...
By Wale Odunsi
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi,
on Saturday defeated Bola Tinubu in the Oniru area of Lagos State.
DAILY POST confirmed official results showed Peter Obi won
at the polling units on Ogunyemi Road, Water Corporation Road, Palace Road, and
near Shoprite.
The All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate lost despite
the dominance of the ruling party in previous elections.
However, the exercise went smoothly but was disrupted at two
locations: the unit near the Palace of Oniru, and the unit on Ogunyemi Road.
Video recordings posted on social media revealed how the
process was interrupted until the police arrived, allowing the votes to be
counted.
After another round of violence, the Police Division in
Maroko, about 7:20pm, moved in to secure the ballot boxes and retrieve election
officials who couldn’t leave Palace Road.
DAILY POST witnessed as a team of eight officers in a white
patrol vehicle escorted out ballot papers, officials of the Independent
National Electoral Commission, INEC, and LP agents out of Oniru.
The results:
PU 079 Oniru
LP 87
APC 22
PDP 1
Palace road Oniru
PDP 7
APC 58
LP 213
Meanwhile, Adewale Ojomo, one of the youths who stood his
ground as thugs invade the area has called for protection.
“Hello @NigeriapolicePR @PoliceNG my life is in danger
because of elections. Please come to my aid. Thugs are after my life in the
Oniru vicinity.
“Please help me keep tweeting till I can confirm that I’m
safe as I am not. They have positioned themselves everywhere waiting for when I
turn up outside.
“They have sent people to my house. My wife & daughter
have just moved out of the house,” he cried out via Twitter.
Ojomo tweeted again at 8:10pm with a photo: “For the
avoidance of doubt, this is me being ferried off in the trunk of a car to
safety as I type because of my political beliefs and choices.”
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