LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has failed to deliver his polling unit for his preferred presidential candidate, Peter Obi of Labour Party.
After the collation of valid votes in Ward 11, Unit 22, Abeokuta North Local Government Area, where Obasanjo voted, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu defeated Obi with 56 votes, while the Labour Party had only 9 votes.
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, scored only 7 votes, while the African Democratic Congress, ADC, scored 8 votes. A total of 10 votes were voided in the unit.
In the senatorial results in the polling unit, the PDP scored 31 votes, while the APC scored 37 votes. Obi’s Labour Party scored 1 vote.
Recall that ex-President, Obasanjo had earlier declared support for Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, as his preferred candidate.