Izuchukwu OkosiThe Labour Party have been declared victorious in the Eti-osa and Kosofe Local Government Areas of Lagos State in the early hours of Monday morning as collation of results continue following Saturday’s general elections.
Information from the Lagos state Collation centre shows that the Labour Party (LP) garnered 42, 388 votes ahead of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with 15, 317 votes while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) both polled 3,369 and 381 votes respectively in Eti-osa Local Government Area.
At the Kosofe Local Government Area, the Labour Party also emerged winners at the polls as it claimed 46,554 votes. The APC were second on the final results collated from the local government areas with 36, 883 votes.
PDP had 4,058 votes while the NNPP finished with 902 votes.
Labour Party’s flagbearer, Peter Obi had also won in Amuwo-odofin and Somolu Local Government Areas.
In total, the former Anambra state Governor has won in five out of 12 states in Lagos State whose results have been collated as at the time of filing this report.
Meanwhile, the All Progressive Congress (APC) were declared the winners in Lagos Mainland Local Government Area from 11 wards with 20,030 votes.
The Labour Party (LP) had 18, 698 votes in the Local Government while the PDP won a paltry 3,002 votes.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed until 11am Monday the commencement of votes collation in the presidential polls.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
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