Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressive Congress, APC, has emerged winner of the gubernatorial election held on Saturday, 18th March,2023.
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The INEC Returning Officer for Lagos State, Mrs Adenike Ayodeji, while declaring the winner said, Sanwo-Olu polled a total of 762134, votes to defeat his closest rival, Labour Partys Rhodes-Vivour who scored 312,329 votes and Dr. Olajide Adediran of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP who polled 62,449 votes respectively.
Sanwo-Olu won 19 local Governments out of 20 while Gbadebor won only one local government.