Nigeria election results 2023: Peter Obi wins Lagos against Bola Tinubu - provisional

A third-party campaigner successful Nigeria's tightly contested statesmanlike predetermination has caused a large upset by winning successful its biggest city, Lagos.

The Labour Party's Peter Obi narrowly defeated the ruling party's Bola Tinubu successful his heartland, results announced by authorities predetermination officials show.

This is the archetypal clip since 1999 that a enactment backed by Mr Tinubu, a two-time Lagos governor, has not won the state.

But Mr Tinubu has won 3 of the 5 different states declared truthful far.

He besides won successful his south-western strongholds of Ondo, Ekiti and Kwara, narrowly losing to Atiku Abubakar of the main absorption Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) successful Osun state.

Mr Abubakar has besides narrowly won the statesmanlike predetermination successful Katsina, the location authorities of outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari.

But with 30 states and the capital, Abuja, inactive to declare, it remains acold excessively soon who mightiness beryllium elected Nigeria's adjacent president.

The results from Ekiti, Kwara, Ondo and Osun person each been confirmed by the caput of the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) astatine its office successful the capital, Abuja, nevertheless the different results stay provisional.

The delays successful getting results from the states and the capital, Abuja, person led to increasing frustration.

The electoral committee has apologised for the unresponsiveness of the results viewing leafage connected its website, saying a surge successful usage caused method hitches.

The delays are partially a effect of the predetermination continuing for a 2nd time successful parts of the country.

The predetermination connected Saturday saw voting commencement respective hours precocious successful galore areas, and besides attacks connected immoderate polling stations.

More than 87 cardinal radical were eligible to instrumentality part, making it the biggest antiauthoritarian workout successful Africa.

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the PDP person dominated Nigeria since the extremity of subject regularisation successful 1999 but this time, Mr Obi from the antecedently small known Labour Party is expected to equine a beardown situation to the two-party system. He has the enactment of galore young people, who marque up a 3rd of registered voters.

A campaigner needs to person the astir votes and a 4th of ballots formed successful 25 of the 36 states positive Abuja to beryllium declared the winner.

Otherwise, determination volition beryllium a run-off wrong 21 days - a archetypal successful Nigeria's history.

The earliest a victor has been announced is connected the 3rd time aft voting successful the erstwhile 2 elections, but galore had expected a faster decision this clip due to the fact that of the instauration of an physics effect transmission system.

This was meant to summation transparency and marque definite the results could not beryllium altered by creating a integer mentation connected the website of the electoral commission, Inec.

But galore voters person accused electoral officials of refusing to upload the results astatine the polling units arsenic they are expected to.

Officials complained of a deficiency of net successful immoderate places to upload the results, but voters person shared videos and images shared wherever Inec officials refused to upload the results.

There person besides been reports of disturbances astatine Inec collation centres successful immoderate states, with immoderate governmental parties connected Sunday asking their supporters to spell to specified places to support their votes.