{"id":945,"date":"2023-03-19T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T15:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=945"},"modified":"2023-03-19T15:20:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T15:20:17","slug":"sanwo-olu-wins-lagos-guber-election-defeats-rhodes-vivour-with-442690-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/03\/19\/sanwo-olu-wins-lagos-guber-election-defeats-rhodes-vivour-with-442690-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanwo-Olu Wins Lagos Guber Election, Defeats Rhodes-Vivour With 442,690 Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Lagos State Governor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress Babajide Sanwo-Olu has won the governorship election after defeating his main opponents Labour Party\u2019s Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour and Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s Abdul-Azeez Adediran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Although, the Independent National Electoral Commission is yet to declare the official results, collated results from the 20 local governments in the state, show Sanwo-Olu is in clear lead with over 442,690 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sanwo-Olu polled a total of 739,526 votes ahead of Rhodes-Vivour who got a total of 296,832 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Adediran popularly known as Jandor came distant third with 63,849 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">INEC is yet to make an official declaration to accommodate the votes from Lekki where election was shifted from Saturday to Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The total number of registered voters for the polling unit are 6243, while a total of 5621 voters picked their permanent voters card.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Details later\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lagos State Governor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress Babajide Sanwo-Olu has won the governorship election after defeating his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}