Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos, has lost his home state to the 61-year-old ex-banker. Overall, the votes to determine who will be president are still being counted.
Votes are still being counted in the closest run presidential election in Nigeria's history.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the ruling APC party's candidate and former governor of Lagos has lost his home state to 61-year-old former banker Peter Obi, who is running for the newer Labour Party.In what is proving to be the most exciting display of democracy in the country's political history, Mr Obi beat Mr Tinubu in Lagos State by around 10,000 individual votes.
Despite the discontent, young people who have been mobilising since the Lekki Tollgate massacre are incredibly satisfied by this result.in October 2020 and have been pushing forward Mr Obi's campaign.21-year-old photographer and activist Bishop Duke told us that the youth have been organising over the last two years.
"It's a cause for celebration, because, for the longest, Lagos has been to be owned by one politician," says Bishop, referring to the"Godfather of Lagos" Mr Tinubu.
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