Politics

Lagos PDP deputy guber candidate, Funke Akindele, loses polling unit to APC

The deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Funke Akindele, has lost her polling unit to the incumbent, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Akindele, on Saturday morning, cast her vote at her polling unit in Ita Aro Square, Aga/Ijimu ward in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State in the governorship and House of Assembly elections in the state.

Sanwo-Olu, however, polled 77 votes to defeat PDP’s Olajide Adeniran, and his running mate, Akindele, who garnered 19 votes.

The gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, polled three votes, while Funsho Doherty of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) scored two votes

The Star

Segun Ojo

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