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  • Lagos realigns Fourth Mainland Bridge

    Lagos realigns Fourth Mainland Bridge

    Lagos State Government said it has altered the initial alignment of the proposed 4th Mainland bridge by moving it to another axis in order to avoid demolition of about 69 buildings.

    Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, who disclosed this Thursday while briefing journalists, said the government had to reconsider it because the damages would attract huge amount of compensation.

    Hamzat informed that some resident of the state moved into the alignment and erected massive structure that would milk the state in terms of compensation hence the alignment has to be shifted.

    According to Hamzat, “We did a survey to establish the right of way. We looked at various options. The option that seems best for us has about 4km of bridge on the water. Unfortunately, when we started the survey and enumeration, a lot of people have built unbelievable number of buildings.
    “I think people were speculative in anticipation of the bridge. I think the demolition we have to do is now about 69 buildings, so we have to rethink, the amount of compensation will run into billions if we have to do that.”

    Affirming the government’s commitment to ensuring the construction of the Bridge, Hamzat said a new alignment is currently being outlined, taking into consideration the Lekki Free Zone and other multinational companies coming into the axis.

    He said, “Dangote Petroleum Refinery is also coming up, so we are considering the one which makes sense to build. The alignment will shift, it will not be the same alignment again , so you can call it Fourth Mainland or whatever, the idea is that if it was here before, because of these buildings , demolitions will be much, some of them don’t have building plans, but they are massive buildings and it would be really bad to demolish them.

    So, really we don’t intend to do that (demolish) so the idea is to move the alignment now so that people don’t start going there to build again.

    Outlining some road projects undertaken by the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure, Hamzat said a total of 281 roads were constructed, rehabilitated and delivered within the last four years while 201‎ road constructions are ongoing across the state.

    He listed litigation, and limited funds as some challenges faced by the ministry in discharging its duties.

    He said it was not in the character of the state government to abandon projects half way, noting that some technical challenges encountered during the course of construction affects project delivery.

  • L.I.F.E Initiative holds seminar in Lagos Island schools

    L.I.F.E Initiative holds seminar in Lagos Island schools

    A new book, Power Teens’ Success Habits was given to pupils across Lagos Island, who featured in a seminar organised by L.I.F.E initiative, a non-government organisation(NGO), which focuses on making youths rediscover themselves through motivational talks.

    The yearly seminar tagged: ‘Leading with Impact (LWI) particularly targets senior secondary school pupils. The venue was Dolphin Senior High School.

    Some of the schools in attendance included,School Hall, Dolphin Senior High School; Okesuna Senior High School; Boys Senior Academy; Girls Senior Academy; and Ebute-Elefun Senior High School.

    Others were: Epetedo Senior High School; King Ado Senior High School; Isale Eko Senior Grammar School, as well as Eko Akete Senior Grammar School, among others.

    Founded by Obafemi George in 2000, L.I.F.E Initiative via the LWI, has impacted thousands of youths.

    “L.I.F.E Initiative is acronym for Leadership, Inspiration, Family and Entrepreneurship Initiative,” said the founder Obafemi George. “We are thinking along and have heard about what it means to help youths to develop a career that is personally and socially beneficial. We seek to infuse into the youth a self-belief system that gives them inner will to weather the unknown world that awaits them before and after school by inspiring them.”

    George gave the rationale behind the ‘Read to Lead’ which is the theme of this year’s LWI seminar.

    “Knowledge is not limited to what is taught in school, this seminar spoke on creating leaders out of readers. With discipline and following success principles, the sky is a starting point. The book -Power Teens’ Success Habits, was distributed at the seminar.  It teaches students success principles, and answers teens’ questions in its work book,” he added.

    Explaining why he complemented the seminar with free books to participants, George lamented that the burgeoning failures among secondary students in major examinations would continue except something is urgently done to arrest the declining reading culture.

    “Did you know that 31.28 per cent representing 529,429 students only, passed with five credits in WAEC in 2014? A decline from the 36.57 per cent recorded in 2013 and 38.81 per cent in 2012, all very poor and worrisome figures. It is one of two things, either students’ have lost the zeal to read, or they need to focus on what makes them champions by concentrating simply on what lies within them,” he said.

    Copies of the book, according to him, can be obtained at the UNILAG Bookshop, Laterna Ventures, Oko Awo V.1 and Glendora Bookshop at Ikeja City Mall.

  • Re: Who owns Lagos ? – A reflection!

    I want to first of all thank you for the column on the above in: “In Touch” in the April 13, 2015 edition of The Nation. I read through your write up and come to the conclusion that, Lagos State and indeed the entire Yoruba States in the south west should be commended for their spirit of assimilation, habitability and good neighbourliness spirit towards all and sundry.

    Personally, I lived in Lagos for about 22 years before relocating to the South South. All my children were born in Lagos and even my wife was also born in Lagos. Lagos is home to all and sundry. If the sons and daughters of Lagos were not hospitable, I don’t think I could have spent such time in Lagos.

    Given that the Lagoon jibe from his Royal Highness, Oba Rilwan Akiolu (1) has exceeded its limits, which we all condemn and himself graciously apologized promptly via his aides, my original opinion about Lagos and its people still remain intact. The Oba is a human being. I am not speaking for the Oba; but come to think of it, as a human being, there are occasions one speaks out of emotions at least once in a while as a result of happenings in his or her environment.

    I hold the Oba of Lagos in high esteem no matter what mischief-makers would want to make out of it. Lagos is indeed home to all despite the neglect of the Federal Government especially from 1999 till date. I feel pained in my heart that despite the contributions of Lagos State to the centre, no meaningful assistance is received from the Federal Government to help Lagos in its development efforts. Tell me, how many states in the Federation can the FGN be owing a whooping sum of over N51billion for maintaining Federal Government facilities in Lagos and can still survive in its operations; yet some enemies of progress would not give up. This must not continue. That is why I am particularly happy that Lagos state is now on the same page with the Federal Government of Nigeria and many other states under the present political architecture.

    To this end, I will always thank God for the kind of leaders that Lagos is blessed with like Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu – a visionary, courageous and team playing personality. May God continue to bless this country with such leaders by way of granting them more fruitful years on earth. I feel pain in my heart as I am writing this response to your column today.

    From the results of the gubernatorial elections that God in His infinite mercies gave to the progressives in Lagos, it is evidently clear that attempts were made by enemies of progress to thwart the efforts of Lagosians from 1999 to 2015, especially in her developmental strides. I noticed protest votes from some inhabitants of Lagos who came from other states despite all that Lagos has done for them all these years because of the retracted Oba’s Lagoon jibe. What has the centre government under PDP done in Lagos for the past 16 years that PDP thinks they can now come to Lagos over night to produce the governor, no matter the conspiracies of the outgoing president, PDP and the security forces?

    It is trite that one cannot eat his cake and have it back. God cannot lie. You can only harvest or reap after you have sown. There is always a wide gap between the time of sowing and the time of harvest. Not that the outgoing president will just fly to Lagos overnight with dollars and Pound Sterling to commandeer vote for Jimi Agbaje just like that instead of him to quickly conclude on his handing over note to the peoples’ general – GMB. You can see that Jimi Agbaje plus running mate, Bode George, Obanikoro and the loquacious speaker – Femi Fani-Kayode, all lost their immediate polling units on March 28 and April 11, 2015. No success without pain. Money is not everything.

    It is in Lagos State that you can have non-indigenes as members of the House of Representatives elected on the platform of an opposition party. Go to Anambra State from inception till date and tell me how many Northerners or South westerners have achieved that. Please, let no one provoke me to anger. Go to other non-Yoruba states in the whole Federation and tell me how many states have Yoruba as Members of Federal House of Reps, commissioners, etc in their cabinets.

    It is not in question as to who owns Lagos? My piece of advise to all that care to listen is that, let no one take the hospitable nature of Lagos citizens for granted as some of us who are non indigenes of Lagos will not be happy with such diversionary tendencies in an attempt to cause crises in Lagos.

    The Yoruba owns Lagos and there is no question about that. It will amount to an insult for anyone to ask that question. Let the peace of Lagos be allowed to continue. We have a very serious task at hand under the new political dispensation in Lagos State and indeed Nigeria at large.

    Finally, my special congratulations to the Jagaban of Nigerian politics – Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu who allowed himself to be used by GOD Almighty as a political catalyst for progress and development in Nigeria. More grease to his elbows.

    Also, my special congratulations to Governor Raji Babatunde Fashola (SAN), who understood the dream of his predecessor and now passing the batten to  Ambode Akinwunmi to continue to consolidate on the change brought to Lagos in the last 16 years. It is our prayers that the enemies of LAGOS STATE shall not distract him. Above, all, my heart felt congratulations to the President-elect – the Peoples’ General – GMB over his well deserved victory, against all odds. To God belongs all the glory. Long live Lagos; long live federal Republic of Nigeria.

     

     

     

  • Lagos refutes outbreak of Ebola

    The Lagos State government has assured residents that there is no new case of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the state.

    The EVD outbreak rumour was generated from two websites- www.mercyjblog.com/2015/04/breaking-ebola-returns-to-nigeria-after.html, which has been pulled down after the Ministry of Health wrote directly to the owner of the blog and on www.naijabadoo.com, which is still active.

    The Commissioner of Health, Dr Jide Idris said: “The victims were said to be returnees from Liberia, and one of them was reportedly taken to an undisclosed hospital in Lagos.

    “The propagator of the rumour failed to give information on their date of arrival to the country, the ports of entry as well as the name of the health facility/laboratory, where the confirmatory diagnosis of EVD was made.

    “We believe that the authors of these materials simply wanted to generate traffic to their websites, which would appear successfully achieved.”

    The Commissioner for Information, Kayode Opeifa, said: “The second rumour concerning two Chinese visitors from Sierra Leone claimed that they died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). LUTH has debunked the claim.”

    The commissioners assured Lagosians that health workers in the state have continued to maintain a high index of suspicion for EVD and other Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers (VHFs).

    “The operations and surveillance activities of the Ebola Emergency Operations Centre (EEOC) have continued, despite the containment of the EVD and the declaration of Nigeria as Ebola-free by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on October 20, last year.”

    “The public should continue to be vigilant and observe good environmental and personal hygiene, especially regular hand washing and proper waste disposal.”

  • Two killed, four injured in Lagos inferno

    An early morning fire Tuesday consumed two adults and injured four others in the Ikotun area of Lagos.

    The victims of the incident which occurred at 57, Authority Avenue, off  Ilewe bus stop, at about 2am, were said to be one Mr.Oseghale and his sister in law, Ngozi, who were burnt to death.

    While the man was recovered in the living room, Ngozi’s body was said to have been found in one of the rooms.

    Fortunately, the deceased’s wife and three children were recovered alive by firemen, thanks to the woman’s thoughtfulness.

    She was said to have destroyed one of the window nets fixed in her room, from where she stationed the children so as to avoid their being suffocated.

    It was learnt that all four survivors were in that position until firemen from the state fire service arrived and rescued them.

    Confirming the incident, the fire service director, Rasaq Fadipe said investigations were on to unravel the cause of the inferno.

    He explained that his men had to perforate the walls and use ladder to gain access into the apartment, adding that it was difficult to enter the flat through the staircase.

    “It was a tragic situation. The fire started around midnight and involved a storey building. A young man and a lady were burnt to death while we recovered four others alive.

    “We found the man lying on the floor while another lady, said to have only arrived from the village on a visit, was found burnt in one of the rooms.

    “We were able to prevent the fire from spreading to other flats in the building. We released the bodies to policemen attached to Ikotun division.”

  • LASG dispels rumour of new Ebola cases

    LASG dispels rumour of new Ebola cases

    The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said reports in the social media that new cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) had been discovered in the state were untrue.

    Dr. Jide Idris, the Commissioner for Health, made the clarification at a news conference in Ikeja.

    He said the reports were mere rumours, pointing out that no new case of Ebola had been confirmed both in the state and in the country.

    “Recently, there was a rumour in the social media on the return of Ebola Virus Disease to Nigeria, killing three and infecting 12 other persons.

    “According to the rumour, the deceased were returnees from Liberia and one of them was reportedly taken to an undisclosed hospital in Lagos.

    “Also, it was also rumoured on twitter that two Chinese visitors from Sierra Leone have also died of EVD at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).

    “However, our findings reveal that these reports were completely untrue and that no new Ebola case has been confirmed in any facility in the state or in the country.

    “We urge residents to ignore the rumour and not panic as the government is doing everything possible to ensure the virus does not re-enter the country, “ he said.

    Idris said the state government would continue to collaborate with the Federal Government on border surveillance to check cross-border infections.

    The commissioner said that the government would also intensify campaigns against the EVD to keep residents safe.

    He said the Ebola Treatment Unit at the Mainland Hospital had been placed on alert to respond to the need for isolation of any new case.

    Idris urged residents to maintain good personal hygiene and clean environment to eliminate risks of infections.

    The commissioner urged residents and health professionals to report any suspicious case of the virus for speedy interventions.

    He said if people with symptoms like vomiting, bleeding from the ears and eyes, headache were responded to early, they could be saved from the resultant death.

     

  • Re: Who Owns Lagos?

    SIR: I read Ijeoma’s article, just like I did that of the Achebe lady, and it is obvious that the Ibos just don’t get it. Lagos became a colony in 1860 by the signing of a treaty with the local indigenous chiefs, who turned out to be, surprise, surprise, Yoruba. The colony of Lagos covered only the three islands. The colonial government had to pay the western protectorate to acquire what is now Ebute Meta up to the boundary at tabs. What is now the Ajah corridor was in western Nigeria. The current Surulere, and it’s counterparts at Ilupeju, Ikeja ,Apapa etc were creations of the western region, built with cocoa money. The Apapa ports and the airport were the only federal projects outside the colony with little western input. Even then, rates were charged for imports meant for the north. So when I hear such idiotic statements as Ibos helped develop Lagos, which part? Festac 77 opened up the bandage axis, but Abule Ado has been in existence for 300 years, before the military, and later, the trade fair complex. Ajegunle was a trading outpost hence the preponderance of non-indigenes.Obalende was built for returning soldiers from WW2, and they were mostly Hausa. So, which road did the Anambra State government used its federal allocation to build that Ibos can claim to have paid for? Or which school did the Imo State build from the scratch in Lagos, or which stadium did Abia build in Lagos from its revenue. I was born and bred in Lagos, and the state paid for my education till graduate school, and despite being a Yoruba, I have never pretended that despite the fact that Lagos made me, that it has no indigenous population and that their hopes and aspirations don’t matter. Oh those with a deep rooted inferiority complex and very low self-esteem would feel so ashamed of their ancestral home and contest ownership of a city where they have no cultural and linguistic ties, no heritage or historical ties, a thousand kilometers away, while deliberately isolating their land from similar incursions, even from those they share a language with.

     

     

     

  • Okonkwo in Lagos

    Okonkwo in Lagos

    Just as antiquity was enthralled by the real-life glorious tragedy of the Spartan King Leonidas and his 300 in 480 BC, the modern literary world has been gripped by the wilful tragedy of Okonkwo, Chinua Achebe’s fictional creation in Things Fall Apart, his 1958 classic.

    As Leonidas and his men fought to the last man at the pass of Thermopylae, in a Greco-Persian War, the fictional Okonkwo sacrificed self to resist creeping Christian (read European) incursion into his pristine Igbo world.

    Many say Okonkwo was rash and brash.  Others say he, as a rule, acted first, thought later.  Still, others insist his tragedy was avoidable, had he been less impulsive.

    But after all said, Okonkwo hanged, so his Igbo essence could live.  Indeed, the Okonkwo mystique was chaffing at the living dead, making shameful peace with the new “abomination” — for what is a people’s life sans their culture?

    Given how some Igbo leaders in Lagos played their numbers game in the March 28 presidential/National Assembly and April 11 gubernatorial/state legislature elections, it was as if Okonkwo leapt from his pristine Umuofia, landed pat in the Igbo dominant areas of 21st century Lagos, and hollered: “meeennn, a new sheriff is in town”!

    The only difference though, was that while the original committed self-martyrdom over a just cause, this grotesque, Lagos Okonkwo manically launched into a dubious one; suggestive of rank covetousness of Lagos, that instantly brought out the virtual beast in their Yoruba hosts.

    Brash, rash and impulsive, the war-cry of this herd was spewing fictional history, bawling dubious statistics plus insensate boasts, and threatening, in concert with a pressured Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), orchestrating a hateful campaign of opponents’ demonization and ethnic baiting as own survival strategy, to take over Lagos!  One, Tony Nwulu, now an Oshodi-Isolo House of Representatives-elect was even quoted in the media as threatening that, should he lose, he and his group would make Lagos ungovernable!

    Yet, at the end of it all, it turned a damp squib.  When the dust cleared, both at the presidential and gubernatorial elections, all the bragging about making up 30% of Lagos could only notch a win in five out of 20 constitutionally recognised local governments!

    Though this “win” fetched the Igbo in Lagos a couple of seats in both the House of Representatives and the Lagos House of Assembly, that such was attained by perceived ethnic gang-up makes such gains pyrrhic, given the rupture of an age-old Yoruba-Ndigbo amity, despite that ethnic tensions were never too far from the placid surface.

    Besides, it takes no especial acuity: an Igbo representative in Lagos, propelled almost solely by the votes of fellow ethnic Igbo, to the chagrin of their ethnic Yoruba hosts, is a journey to nowhere.

    The reason is simple, even if unpalatable to dreamy-eyed democrats, or even worse: the so-called “de-tribalised” (whatever that means!) Nigerians.  Unlike the United States, which is a settler community, Nigeria is a country of indigenous peoples, with each passionate about its own space.  Besides, before democracy, there was sociology; and before sociology, there was anthropology.

    So, it is patently shallow to claim playing democracy, without grasping social formations and showing acute sensitivity to the indigenous people’s aspirations, mores and values, especially in  indigenous communities like Nigeria’s, no matter how big or cosmopolitan, as is the case with Lagos.

    In the Lagos case, it was especially politically costly.  Aligning with PDP which had ruined the central government, against APC, which had built Lagos was, to many Lagosians, brazen betrayal.

    Which brings the matter to the Oba of Lagos, Riliwan Akiolu’s alleged Lagoon fatwa — alleged because the Eko Palace had tried to tone down its menacing import — which generated quite a huff.

    On the political/democratic plane, the threat was awful — and you could tell by the way it immediately put the Lagos All Progressive Congress (APC) establishment on the back foot, disowning the royal and placating the hurting Igbo; and the way the Lagos PDP latched onto it, like some Deus-ex-machina making a divine appearance, to breathe fresh life to a doomed project.

    But not so, on the sociological/anthropological plane.  When Jimi Agbaje, the Lagos PDP gubernatorial candidate told cheering Igbo traders at the Lagos Trade Fair complex to, with their votes, drive the rival APC into the Atlantic Ocean, it was a devastating and recklessly irreverent pun, telling his own Kabiyesi to himself go jump into the lagoon!

    That moment, his bid probably received a fatal kiss.  For one, the Oba in Yoruba culture is Kabiyesi — he who cannot be questioned.  For another, Nigeria is a democracy that cohabits with feudalism, in delicate dialectics.  After all the excitement on the campaign stumps, and all mythical claim to free speech, you would still go prostrate to your monarch in private — so decrees culture!

    But the most lethal of the Agbaje gaffe was setting himself up as putative Afonja of Lagos — a toxic tag.  Afonja was the personage in Yoruba history, whose treachery helped the Fulani to put Ilorin, hitherto a Yoruba town in the Oyo Empire, under Fulani suzerainty.

    The Trade Fair charge bolstered the cheering but obviously distraught Igbo, despite their overt braggadocio.  But it also galvanised a piqued Yoruba population, furious at “Jimi’s [alleged] conspiracy to gift Lagos to the Igbo”.  So, while comparatively the Yoruba appeared to have come out in their numbers, the Igbo rather seemed to recede.

    In three short months of electioneering — or even less — Mr. Agbaje had, therefore, morphed from the decent and avuncular neighbour next door, to a putative betrayer of his own people!  But that cannot be true!  Mr. Agbaje needs urgent help to throw off this unflattering, if not fatal, tag.

    The fact, however, is that, for the umpteenth time, the swashbuckling Ndigbo in Lagos blundered into the maelstrom of a brutal power play, both nationally and in Lagos.  But they ended up as merry fall guys.

    President Goodluck Jonathan started the noxious campaign, way back in 2011, when he suggested in Lagos that if Lagos non-indigenes banded together, they could politically usurp the native Yoruba.  Pre-2015 election,  he followed that up with campaign stops to churches, posturing as an endangered Christian president, waiting to be undone by vicious Muslims.  That was the long and short of Lagos PDP’s electoral strategy: ethnic baiting and religious divisiveness.

    On the Lagos front, not a few business gentries and free-wheeling political aristocrats, progressive, conservative and reactionary, who hate the guts of Bola Tinubu, the APC national leader, cooked their own plot.

    Mr. Agbaje, always hinting at “vested interests”, was the smiling, brilliant and decent face of that ugly plot.  A more discerning Okonkwo in Lagos should have seen through the booby trap, and not recklessly blundered into it, as if it were its own.  But alas!

    This is no triumphalism — no!  It is rather truth, frankly and painfully told.  The Ndigbo, for too long have been mixed up in needless crises.  The Lagos debacle is the latest.

    It is high time their leaders had some introspection, if they must attain their ultimate in the context of a just, fair and equitable Federal Nigeria.

     

  • Mbu at INEC centre: Seizes policeman’s gun

    Mbu at INEC centre: Seizes policeman’s gun

    Assistant Inspector General of Police, Joseph Mbu on Sunday made a surprise appearance at the INEC collation centre in Lagos.

    Mbu, who was quick to spot a shabbily dressed Police man, retrieved his gun and matched him out of the centre.

    Speaking at the collation centre, Mbu said that the Saturday elections were free and fair.

    “Whoever won was based on merit, no one should cast aspersions on the Police.”

  • Elections: It’s APC all the way in Lagos, Kaduna, Oyo, Kano

    Elections: It’s APC all the way in Lagos, Kaduna, Oyo, Kano

    •Tambuwal, Amosun, Bindo, Sani Bello, Shettima, Masari, Ishaku, Ahmed also in early lead

    •Ortom ahead in Benue, wins in Government House, Makurdi

    The people spoke again yesterday loud and clear, casting  their lot  for  the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the  majority of the South West, North West, North Central and North East states in the governorship /state assembly elections.

    From the early results across the states, candidates of the party in the four geo-political zones appeared to be coasting to victory.

    The situation was however the opposite in much of the South South and the Southeast where candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were largely favoured, although reports from Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Delta suggested massive violations of the electoral process by the party.

    Violence raged for much of the day in Akwa Ibom and Rivers states such that electoral officers had to go into hiding.

    At least11 people, some of them APC supporters were killed in the violence.

    Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, the APC governorship candidate in Lagos State took a commanding lead, brushing aside Mr. Jimi Agbaje of the PDP who failed in his polling unit.

    Early results include the followings: Lagos State All Progressives Congress (APC) was in early lead at the yesterday’s governorship and House of Assembly elections in Lagos, Ogun and Oyo states.

    According to unofficial polls result, APC was leading in over 15 of the 20 local governments. In five councils, the APC and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were appeared to be running neck to neck.

    The polls were relatively peaceful, although the exercise was generally marred by low turnout of voters.

    In Lagos State, the unofficial results are as follows:

    Ashogbon Polling Unit 049, Surulere:

    Governorship: APC 55, PDP 38,

    Amuwo –Odofin Unit 009:

    Governorship: APC 49, PDP 51.

    Lekki polling Unit 24:

    Governorship: APC 190, PDP, 112.

    Oworoshonki Unit 023:

    Governorship: APC 121, PDP,106.

    Agege Unit 071:

    Governorship: APC, 136, PDP,48.

    Mushin Unit 035

    Governorship: APC 102, PDP, 40.

    Alimosho Unit 053

    Governorship: APC 244, PDP 176,

    Unit 50: APC 180, PDP, 131.

    Unit 51, APC 183, PDP, 131,

    Unit 041, Ward D, APC 243, PDP, 105.

    Agbado Oke-Odo Unit 075, APC 137, PDP, 48.

    Ojota Unity Close, Unit 067, APC, 130, PDP,105.

    Amuwo Odofin, Lagos: PU056 (A-L) House of Assembly: APC-31, PDP-38, APGA-1 Gov: APC-32, PDP-38

    Amuwo Odofin, Lagos: PU056 (M-Z) House of Assembly: APC-30, PDP-53, APGA-2 Gov: APC-27, PDP-56, void-2

    Amuwo Odofin, Lagos: PU023 House of Assembly: APC-53, PDP-57

    Gov: APC-48, PDP-57

    Amuwo Odofin, Lagos: PU056 (A-L) House of Assembly: APC-31, PDP-38, APGA-1 Gov: APC-32, PDP-38

    Amuwo Odofin, Lagos: PU056 (M-Z) House of Assembly: APC-30, PDP-53, APGA-2 Gov: APC-27, PDP-56, void-2

    Amuwo Odofin, Lagos: PU023 House of Assembly: APC-53, PDP-57 Gov: APC-48, PDP-57

    Amuwo Odofin, Lagos: PU018

    Gov: APC-47, PDP-117

    Amuwo Odofin, Lagos: PU074 House of Assembly: APC-40, PDP-81,

    Gov: APC-49, PDP-80

    Ikeja Polling Unit 047:

    Gov:  APC 230, PDP 60

    Assembly: APC 233, PDP 60

    Ward G3, Unit 002, Surulere

    Governorship: 270, PDP 132

    Ashogbon Polling Unit 049, Surulere

    Governorship, APC 55, PDP 38,

    Amuwo –Odofin, Unit 009,

    Governorship: APC 49, PDP 51.

    Ikeja Unit 12, Ward 8

    Gov: APC 76, PDP 93

    Assembly: APC 89, PDP 81

    Polling Unit 017, Opebi, Lagos

    Governorship: APC – 51, PDP – 50

    Assembly: APC – 55, PDP – 44, APGA – 1

    Polling Unit 019 Idiaraba, Mushin

    Governorship:  APC 81: PDP 4, APGA 1

    Ward 09 PU34, Bourdillon

    Gov: APC 99, PDP 24

    Assembly: APC 91, PDP31

    Oworoshonki Unit 02

    Gov:  APC 121, PDP,106.

    Agege Unit 071, APC, 136, PDP,48.

    Mushin Unit 035, APC 102, PDP, 40.

    Alimosho Units, 053, APC 244, PDP 176,

    Unit 50,APC 180, PDP, 131.

    Unit 51, APC 183, PDP, 131,

    Unit 041, ward D, APC 243, PDP, 105.

    Agbado Oke-Odo Unit 075, APC 137, PDP, 48.

    Ojota, Unity Close, Unit 067, APC, 130, PDP,105.

    Orile-Agege Units, 28,

    Gov: APC 99, PDP, 89.

    House of Assembly, APC 101, PDP, 65.

    Unit 29: Governorship: APC 121, PDP, 71,

    House of Assembly: APC 105, PDP, 71.

    Kosofe Unit 044

    Governorship: APC, 136, PDP, 56.

    Polling Unit 042,Ketu

    Governorship: APC, 110, PDP, 51.

    Polling Unit 043

    Governorship, APC 92, PDP. 59.

    Bolodeoku, Ogba Polling Unit 051

    Governorship: APC 116, PDP 78

    Bogije, Ibeju-Lekki

    Governorship: APC, 531, PDP, 317.

    House of Assembly, APC 562, PDP, 279.

    Shangisha, Magodo, Polling Unit 008

    Gvernorship, APC 160, PDP, 93.

    Unit 001, Bogije Ward F. Ibeju-Lekki

    Governorship APC -531;  PDP – 317

    Assembly – APC – 562 , PDP – 279.

    Apapa Polling Unit  009

    Gov: APC 216, PDP 80

    Apapa LG, Apapa 11 Unit 002

    Gov: APC 131, PDP 62

    Lagos Island Polling Unit 009

    Gov: APC 213, PDP 57

    Polling Unit 012, Opebi

    Governorship: PDP 50, APC 126

    Oshodi Polling Unit 24

    Gov: PDP 131, APC 106

    Kosofe Unit 16:

    Gov: APC 213, PDP 45

     

    Ikorodu Unit 24:

    Gov: PDP 51, APC 135

    Polling Unit 049, Ikeja.

    Gov: APC 54, PDP 38, AD 1, APGA 1

    Mushin Ward G, Polling Unit 020

    House of assembly: APC 67, PDP 41

    Gov: APC 70, PDP 41

    Agege Polling Unit  058:

    Gov: LP 1, NNPP 1, APC 75, PDP 53

    Lagos Island Polling Unit 017

    Gov: APC 149, PDP 45, PPN 1

    Polling Unit 011 Savage

    Assembly: APC 101, PDP 75

    Gov: APC 97, PDP 85

    Arinola/Ori-Okuta Polling Unit 039, Ikorodu

    Governorship: APC 122, PDP 47

    Apapa Polling Unit 018:

    Gov:  APC 170, PDP 3

    IBA LCDA Polling Unit 032

    Assembly: APC 71, PDP 59

    Gov: APC 70, PDP 61

    Alimoso Polling Unit  24-03-11-002

    Gov:  APC 215, PDP 76.

    For Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State it is history in the making after appearing to break the jinx of a second term in the state.

    As at last night, he was ahead of his opponents –Accord Party’s Rasheed Ladoja, Labour Party’s Alao-Akala -in most parts of the state.

    Seeing the handing writing on the wall the PDP candidate, Senator Teslim Folarin went on air to concede defeat.

    He promised to congratulate the winner once INEC confirms the result.

    Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State was also on course sweeping most of the votes in Ogun West and Central. The PDP performed better in Ogun East especially in Remo and Ijebu North.

    The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal who flew the APC flag in Sokoto was in early lead as were Mallam Nasir el’Rufai (Kaduna),Dr.Umar Ganguje (Kano),Alhaji Aminu Masari (Katsina), Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara),Governor  Kashim Shettima (Borno), Alhaji , Abubakar Sani Bello (Niger),Mr. Samuel Ortom  (Benue) and Senator Jibrilla Bindow (Adamawa)

    The voting pattern is a reflection  of the outcome of the March 28 Presidential Election which was won by the party’s candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari

    Although the two leading candidates in Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai and Governor Ramalan Yero won in their polling units, the APC candidate (el-Rufai) was clearly ahead in the results of most of the Polling Units declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC).

    While el-Rufai polled 360 votes against PDP’s Yero 42 votes at his polling unit 024, Ungwar Sarki, Yero also won at his Kaura polling unit in Zaria city with 304 votes against El-Rufai’s 192 votes.

    Other results were Kawo Polling unit 031( el-Rufai  554 ,PDP 09) ; Tudun Wada  031(APC 255, PDP 01);  Kabala Kapuwa, APC 673 votes, PDP 09); Tudun Nupawa, (APC 286, PDP 03); Madawaki PU 022(APC 546, PDP 17 votes); Makarfi road,  Kawo PU 029(APC 495 votes,  PDP 21).

    Others are Kachia town PU 009 (APC 274, PDP 161); Kofar Sarki Badiko PU 009,  (APC 188,  PDP 17); Ungwan Rimi PU 025( APC 207,  PDP 47);  Gabasawa PU 023,  (APC 270, PDP 31); Ungwan Sarkin PU 024(APC 360,  PDP 42).

    Babban Dodo, Zaria 05 PU( APC 209, PDD 26); Zaria City A/juma PU020 (APC 291, PDP 53); Zaria A/juma pu016 (APC 397,PDP 48).

    It was the same song for the APC in all the local governments in Kano where Deputy Governor Umar Ganduje defeated the PDP candidate, Yusuf Takai in the results of the  polling units so far declared.

    Some of the results are as follows:  Sumaila Gala ward 006 (APC 197, PDP 3)

    Dala Kofar ward 024 APC 61, PDP 13); Dala Dogon Nama ward (APC 386, PDP 185)

    005 Booth (APC 222, PDP 54); Nassarawa Tudun Murtala (APC 155, PDP 39)

    Warawa  LG Kadawa 004 (APC 177, PDP 79); 005booth (APC 161, PDP 57).

    The APC candidate in Niger State, Abubakar Sani Bello was ahead of  PDP’s Umar Gado Nasko  in most polling units in  Chanchaga, Bida, Shiroro, Magama, Kontagora, Borgu, Rijau, Rafi and Suleja Local Government Areas.

    The APC candidate was equally coasting home to victory in Lapai, Tafa, Edati, Lavun and Mokwa local government areas of the state.

    In Taraba State, a former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Arc. Darius Ishaku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was leading in nine Local Government Areas last night.

    Ishaku sprang a surprise by forging ahead of APC candidate, Sen. Aishat Alhassan, in her opponents stronghold in Jalingo.

    Ishaku was leading in Wukari,Taken, Dunga, Ussa, Karim-Lamido ,Yorro, Zing, Kuremi and Jalingo.

    A governorship candidate in Adamawa State last night gave an  insight into the contest in Adamawa State.

    He admitted that it was apparent that APC candidate, Sen. Jibrilla Bindow was leading.

    He said: “Alhamdulilahi, we participated in the elections and remained consistent without abandoning our mandate half way.

    “From initial results, it is clear APC will form the next government in Adamawa State.”

    It was a comfortable lead for Governor Kashim Shettima in Borno State against PDP’s Gambo Lawan.

    The PDP candidate lost his polling unit in Mobbar Local Government Area of northern Borno State to APC.

    While Governor Shettima secured 118 votes, Lawan got 9 votes at Kareto Dispensary PU of Kareto Ward.

    Shettima however delivered his polling unit to the APC when he polled 196 votes at Shettimari Polling Unit in Lawan Bukar, Lamisula Ward, where the Governor voted near his late father’s house in Maiduguri. His main challenger, Gambo Lawan of the PDP got zero.

    Governor Abdulfatahi Ahmed had a calm day as he floored  the PDP candidate, Sen. Simeon Sule Ajibola in Kwara Central Senatorial District, especially Ilorin Emirate with huge voting population.

    Some of the results are Ajikobi Ward Polling Unit 006( APC: 291, PDP:56);

    Unit 005( APC: 297, PDP:24); Alanamu Ward PU 24(  APC:194, PDP: 60).

    The governor was also ahead in most polling units in Kwara North and most parts of Kwara South including his Ifelodun Local Government Area of the state.

    A major upset was recorded in Benue State where the APC candidate, Samuel Ortom defeated the PDP rival, Termhen Tazoor at the Polling Unit in Government House, Makurdi by garnering 145 votes to PDP’s 119.

    Ortom was also in the lead in most results from Makurdi, Guma, Otukpo, Kwande, Ushongo, Gboko, Buruku, Konshisha, Oju and Tarka Local Government Areas.

    For ex-Speaker Aminu Masari, it was an easy ride over  PDP’s candidate, Engr. Nashuni in most Local Government Areas of Katsina State.

    Like electoral Tsunami, Governor Ibrahim lost to APC in his Ward in his hometown in Dutsinma.

    But the results of the governorship poll might be delayed because INEC has postponed the  conduct of gubernatorial and State House of Assembly elections in Danmusa LGA.

    INEC vehicles were attacked by suspected thugs and election materials hijacked.

    As at press time, PDP was yet to win in any polling unit in Sokoto State in all the results so far declared making it a likely landslide for Speaker Aminu Tambuwal.

    Desperate to cast her vote for APC candidate, a 50-year old woman, YarbabaYusuf Babangida died at Kofar Gidan Salisu Maska Polling Unit in Funtua Local Government Area of Katsina State.

    The APC and PDP were running a close race .

    Some of the results from the Polling Units indicated that the APC governorship candidate, Rochas Okorocha was leading in Njaba, Nkwerre, Onuimo, Okigwe, Owerri North, Owerri Municipal, Owerri West,  Ideato South and Ideato North Local Government Areas while the PDP governorship candidate, Emeka Ihedioha, was ahead  in Aboh-Mbaise, Ahiazu-Mbaise, Ezinihitte, Oguta, Ohaji-Egbema.

    The early results showed that both candidates won  in their party’s strongholds.

    PDP’s Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi was leading in Enugu state.

    More results are being awaited.