Live Updates, Results: Lagos State 2019 Governorship Election

Electorates in Lagos State will today head to the polls to elect their governor and members of the House of Assembly.

The two major contestants for the election are the PDP candidate Jimi Agbaje and APC’ Babajide Sanwo-olu.

Agbaje lost to incumbent governor, Akinwunmi Ambode in 2015 and will be seeking to make this one count in his favour.

Recall that the PDP lost the presidential election on February 23rd to the APC.

Stick to Naija News for live updates as Lagosians vote for the leader and members of the State House of Assembly.

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Naija News has gathered that the Deputy Governorship Candidate of the PDP, Haleemat Busari, has lost her polling unit to APC candidate, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

Busari polled 15 votes against Sanwo-Olu’s 40 at the 021 polling unit of Ward A, Unit 021 in Adekunle Anglican Primary School, Makoko, Lagos a few metres from her residence at Denny Estate.

Time: 11:58am
State: Lagos
LGA: Ojo
Ward: B agbokoko
P.U: 10

No ad-hoc staff or @inecnigeria official has arrived. #SR2019Elections #SRObserves2019 #ElectionDay

— Situation Room (@SituationRoomNg) March 9, 2019

12: 45 pm: There are reports of tension at Ogudu collation centre for Ward 4 voting centre in the Kosofe area of Lagos State as nine ballot booklets go missing. The Peoples Democratic Party agents were protesting the missing ballot booklets.

12: 05 pm: The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Babajide Sanwo-Olu voted alongside his wife, Ibijoke, at the Lateef Jankande/Femi Okunnu Polling Unit in Ikoyi.

https://twitter.com/CameraBoyNG/status/1104348629135958016

No INEC official or election materials at Ogudu and Ojota at 1:48pm #LagosDecides2019 pic.twitter.com/pr0fHnCmoR

— 100% (@xystech_01) March 9, 2019

Time: 10:01AM
State: Lagos State
LGA: Surulere
Ward: Ikpori
PU: 009 Okinsimonye Pry School

-Use of card readers have been abandoned for manual accreditation.
-Thugs are intimidating INEC Officials.@inecnigeria @PoliceNG #SR2019Elections #NigeriaDecides2019 #SRObserves2019

— Situation Room (@SituationRoomNg) March 9, 2019

11:15 am: Polling unit 10 ward 3 Ikorodu Lagos, the PO said the voting has been going on smoothly only that there is a very low turn out of people to vote.

RT dotun_e: A #corper was hit here at Mushin Local government. (AUD primary school,Itire) RAC Center just now… Please help retweet till it get to the top… We can't continue like this #NigeriaDecides2019 #LagosDecides #LagosDecides2019 #ElectionNotWar… pic.twitter.com/EG4gA7DMFK

— YouthRising (@YouthRisingNG) March 9, 2019

Time: 10.22am
State: Lagos
LGA: Ajeromi Ifelodun
Ward: 8
PU: 048

Complete voting materials yet to arrive at the PU. No @PoliceNG personnel present.#SR2019Elections #NigeriaDecides2019 #SRObserves2019

— Situation Room (@SituationRoomNg) March 9, 2019

Time: 10:36AM
State: Lagos State
LGA: Ojo
Ward: B
PU: 027

-Voting has commenced and all materials are on ground.#SR2019Elections #NigeriaDecides2019 #SRObserves2019

— Situation Room (@SituationRoomNg) March 9, 2019

10:44 am: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Jimi Agbaje, has voted in the ongoing Guber election.

10:00 am: Governor Akinwunmi Ambode votes at Ward A5, unit 33, Epe, alongside his wife, Bolanle.

Time: 10:08AM
State: Lagos State
LGA: Ojo
Ward: *
PU: 048

-Voting has commenced.
-Everything is ongoing peacefully.#SR2019Elections #NigeriaDecides2019 #SRObserves2019

— Situation Room (@SituationRoomNg) March 9, 2019

Time: 9.59am
State: Lagos
LGA: Agege
Ward: 03

In Agege RAC, @inecnigeria ad-hoc officers refused to leave the center, report says political actors addressing them now.@SituationRoomNg @cleenfoundation @IFES1987 #WeAreForPeace #NigeriaDecides2019 pic.twitter.com/rOnW6DY8ka

— Kimpact Development Initiative (@KDI_ng) March 9, 2019

Time: 9:48am
State: Lagos
LGA: Ojo
Ward: B
P.U: 027@inecnigeria officials and materials are absent. #SR2019Elections #SRObserves2019 #ElectionDay

— Situation Room (@SituationRoomNg) March 9, 2019

Time: 9:57am
State: Lagos
LGA: Ikorodu
Ward: 15
PU: 03

Voting is yet to commence.#SR2019Elections #NigeriaDecides2019 #SRObserves2019 pic.twitter.com/h5Z0TCqKcr

— Situation Room (@SituationRoomNg) March 9, 2019

No inec officials in all of KOSOFE LGA polling units as at 9:53am in PU:24/13/05/096 @inecnigeria @SituationRoomNg @channelstv @cleenfoundation @ojmagic @THEBEAT999FM @SaharaReporters @electmonitorng @galaxytv @NigeriaPolice @CDDWestAfrica #NigeriaDecides2019

— Reclaim Naija (@reclaimnaija) March 9, 2019

9:30 am:  Senator Oluremi Tinubu (APC-Lagos Central) has voted in the governorship and state Assembly elections at Polling Unit 034, Falomo Police Barracks IV, Ikoyi, Lagos.

9: 15 am: INEC has temporarily suspended the commencement of voting at the polling unit of the APC candidate Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s in Ikoyi, Lagos until a malfunctioning card reader is fixed. An INEC official told voters at the ward that a technician was on the way.

9: 05 am: One of the two card readers provided by INEC at the polling unit of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s polling unit in Ikoyi, Lagos, has malfunctioned, the Nation reports.

8:14 am: INEC ad hoc staff protested on Saturday at Ikosi Ketu Registration Area Centre over unpaid allowances.

Time: 8:14am
State: Lagos
LGA: Kosofe
Ward: Anthony Village@inecnigeria officials are protesting at Unity High School, they are protesting non-payment of allowances to ad-hoc staff.
#SR2019Elections #SRObserves2019.

— Situation Room (@SituationRoomNg) March 9, 2019

Time: 7:09am
State: Lagos
LGA: Ikorodu
Ward: 14
PU: 001@inecnigeria officials and voting materials have arrived but voters yet to turn up.#SRObserves2019 #SR2019Elections #NigeriaDecides2019pic.twitter.com/zJwf3CcDBZ

— Situation Room (@SituationRoomNg) March 9, 2019