Explainer: What INEC’s 2023 results in Lagos, Oyo, Osun actually reveal

By Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA
Lagos, Oyo and Osun states each backed a different candidate in the February 25, 2023 presidential election, according to the results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
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Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, won Lagos; Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, won Oyo, and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, won Osun.
What happened in Lagos?
Lagos produced the closest of the three contests. Obi polled 582,454 votes (45.81 per cent), while Tinubu, the APC candidate, followed with 572,606 votes (45.04 pe...