Nigeria’s opposition presidential candidate Peter Obi has caused a huge upset by narrowly defeating the ruling party’s Bola Tinubu in his heartland of Lagos state, provisional results announced by state election officials show.
Mr Obi won 582,454 votes, compared to Mr Tinubu’s 572,606.
The official results will be announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) at its headquarters in the capital, Abuja.
Atiku wins in Buhari’s state – provisional result
Nigeria’s main opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar has narrowly won the presidential election in Katsina, the home state of outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari, provisional results by state election officials show.
Mr Abubakar got 489,045 votes while the ruling party’s Bola Tinubu got more than 482,000.
The result was announced by Inec election officials in Katsina.
