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Makinde is the second governor to win re-election in Oyo State after the late Abiola Ajimobi. He is a member of G-5 Governors who opposed the candidacy of the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
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The governor defeated his closest challenger and candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Oladipupo Adebutu, who scored 262, 383 votes.
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He is a former commissioner for lands in Akwa Ibom and will succeed Emmanuel on May 29, 2023.
The organisation deployed its Election Portal, Dataphyte Election Portal (DEP) to report live election incidents and results from the country’s 174 local governments.
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The REC said that INEC would not allow the missing gadgets to be used for the elections, assuring that election results would be uploaded in real time after the voting process.
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Low voter turnout has been witnessed across Nigeria as 28 states conduct their 2023 governorship and state house of assembly elections today.
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There were reported cases of opposition intimidation in Lagos, with several voters prevented from getting to their polling units. Ethnic profiling was also commonplace, and many polling units were invaded and attacked, with voters chased away.
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PDP has dominated the state since the country’s return to democracy. In 1999, Chimaroke Nnamani was elected under the platform of the PDP and governed the state for eight years. He handed over to a fellow party man, Sullivan Chime, who governed the state from 2007 to 2015.
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The top-to-bottom voting approach involves voting for all the LP candidates vying for various positions.
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Nigeria has a lower probability of electing a young governor who is between 35 and 40 years in the forthcoming gubernatorial election, according to Dataphyte analysis.
Lagos is characterised by high political participation but the least voter turnout. Several factors are responsible for this.
However, in the 2023 election, the politics in the state took a drastic turn as the APC won in only 10 LGAs in Lagos State while LP grabbed the other 10 LGAs. The PDP did not win any.
In the Nigerian political system, governors pick their successors who will follow in their footsteps and protect them when out of power. Opposition governors often expose the previous governments of different political parties and sometimes lie about, belittle or deride their achievements, according to analysts.
#DailyDataCard: 2023 Presidential Elections: Voting Trends in Top 5 States
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Dataphyte was the first to give a detailed prediction of a clear win for Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the first round of elections, without a tie and a need for a run-off election.
