As of 1 p.m. on Sunday, several hours after the completion of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in Lagos State, no single result from any of the 20 Local Government Areas, (LGA) had arrived at the State Collation Centre.
On Saturday, the presidential and national assembly elections were held concurrently across the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory.
Nigerians elect the next President and members of the two chambers of the National Assembly in the ongoing electoral process (Senate and House of Representatives).
The state was still in the process of collating results, with some at registration areas, federal constituency, senatorial district, and local government collation centers.
Several stakeholders, including domestic and international observers, media, operatives from various security agencies, party agents, and others, are waiting for the collation to begin at the INEC office.
While some stakeholders slept overnight at INEC Media Centre, venue of the state collation for the Presidential Election, situated at INEC headquarters office, Sabo-Yaba area, some arrived early morning to see the process start.
Recall that the PDP Agent for the State Collation, Capt. Tunji Shelle, was among those that arrived at the site around 12.30 a.m. and left when nothing happened.
Lagos state has a total voting population of seven million registered voters spread across 13, 325 polling units in the state’s 245 wards and 20 LGAs.
Earlier, Prof. Adenike Oladiji, the Lagos State Collation Officer and Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), stated at the official opening of the centre for final collation of election results in Lagos State at 11.30 p.m. that the collation center would reconvene at 10 a.m. before being shifted to 12 noon.
She explained that this became necessary because no one LGA result was available at the time.
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