The All Progressives Congress (APC) is cementing
its ruling party status in the country with massive
wins in more than half of the states in Nigeria in
the governorship elections.
According to results announced so far, the APC
won in 19 states and was leading in Plateau and
Kebbi states. The ruling party now to become
opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
however, won in Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi, Gombe
and Enugu.
While it lost the governorship seat in Lagos, the
PDP won six seats in the Lagos State House of
Assembly for the first time ever.
Senator Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, yesterday,
broke the re-election jinx like he vowed last year.
Since 1983, no governor has ever been re-elected
in the state.
The APC won the governorship elections in
Kaduna, Sokoto, Niger, Borno, Adamawa, Lagos,
Kwara, Katsina, Bauchi, Kano, Yobe, Zamfara,
Oyo, Ogun, Benue, Nasarawa, Jigawa and Benue
States.
Yesterday, the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) released results of the gov­
ernorship and House of Assembly elections held
on Saturday, with the All Progressives Congress
(APC) winning in majority of the states.
At press time, from the results released by the
INEC, the APC had already won 14 out of 29
states where governorship elections held on
Saturday.
In the poll, which was largely peaceful across the
nation, the APC created upsets in states
traditionally controlled by the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) since 1999.
Such states include Kaduna, Niger, Adamawa,
Benue and Bauchi.
For the PDP, apart from Imo, it literally had a
smooth sail in the South-East and South-South,
winning in Enugu, Ebonyi, Delta, Akwa Ibom,
Cross River and Rivers. The party also won in
Gombe and Taraba states.
Ogun
In the ‘Gateway State’, Governor Ibikunle
Amosun was re-elected for a second term in
office.
The INEC Returning Officer for the state, Prof.
Duro Oni, declared him winner of the April 11
governorship election having polled 306,988 out
of 555,430 total valid votes cast in the state.
With Amosun’s victory, the hope of the people of
Ogun West to produce a governor of the state
for the first time has once again been dashed. The
district remains the only section that has yet to
produce a governor for the state since its creation
over 38 years ago.
The governorship candidate of the PDP, Gboyega
Isiaka, who came second behind Amosun with
201,440 votes, hails from Imeko in the Ogun
West Senatorial District of the state.
Declaring Amosun as the duly elected governor
of the state, the INEC returning officer, who is also
the deputy vice chancellor of the University of
Lagos, said the APC standard bearer beat 15 other
governorship candidates to emerge the overall
winner of the poll.
Oni also said the election did not hold in nine
polling units spread across three local
government areas of Odeda, Ogun Waterside
and Sagamu.
Katsina
The APC gubernatorial candidate in Katsina State,
Aminu Masari, won in all the 33 constituencies so
far declared at press time yesterday out of the 34
in the state.
The collation of the votes was deferred from 1pm
till 3pm because the result of Fasakri Local
Government Area was still being awaited.
However, results so far declared showed that
APC polled 613,132 votes as against 457,903 by
the PDP in the election.
A breakdown of the result revealed that the
President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari,
delivered his home constituency, Daura, with
ease while Governor Ibrahim Shema lost in his
Dutsin-ma constituency.
Similarly, the governorship candidate of APC, Ma­
sari, won in his home constituency, Kafur, while
his PDP counterpart, Musa Nashuni, lost in
Kankia.
Investigations revealed that though the
governorship and assembly elections were
generally peaceful in most local government
areas, they were characterised by violence in
some areas.
The worst hit area was Danmusa Local
Government Area, where the results of 10 out of
the 11 wards in the constituency were cancelled
due to violence.
Kaduna
Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory
(FCT), Malam Nasir El- Rufa’i, of the APC won the
election.
According to the INEC in Kaduna, El-Rufa’i polled a
total of 1,117,635 million votes from across the 23
local government areas of the state.
The INEC Returning Officer for Kaduna State, Prof.
Ja’afaru Kaura, who announced the result, said El-
Rufa’i defeated his main opponent, the PDP
candidate, who is also the incumbent governor,
Mukhtar Yero, who polled a total of 485,833
votes. Yero had earlier in a telephone
conversation with El-Rufa’i and special radio
broadcast conceded defeat and congratulated the
winner.
Meanwhile, there was jubilation among APC sup­
porters across the state as soon as the result was
announced, with youths taking over major
streets in Kaduna metropolis, singing and
dancing.
Enugu
In the coal City state, the PDP candidate, Ifeanyi
Ugwuanyi, was declared the winner in the
election which he won overwhelmingly.
INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Hilary Edoga, who
declared the result at the commission’s office in
Enugu, said Ugwuanyi fulfilled all the
requirements of the law to be pronounced the
winner of the governorship election in the state.
Ugwuanyi polled a total of 482,277 votes out of
the total 538,752 valid votes cast to beat the APC
candidate, Chief Okey Ezea, who scored 43,839
votes.
Former governor Chimaroke Nnamani’s party,
PDC came third with 4,813, while APGA took the
fourth position with 3,343 votes.
The state chapter of the PDP in a statement
signed by its Publicity Secretary, Dr. Okey Eze,
congratulated Ugwuanyi and all its candidates at
the election, saying they had successfully won
and overwhelmingly too.
The Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike
Ekweremadu, congratulated Ugwuanyi on his
victory, saying his victory was very much
expected as the PDP was not only the party on
ground in Enugu, but also going by his over­
whelming popularity across the state.
Gombe
Governor Hassan Dankwambo of Gombe won
re-election on the platform of the PDP. He won
with 285,369 to defeat the APC candidate, Inuwa
Yahaya, who got 205,132 votes, according to the
Returning Officer, Prof. Saminu Ibrahim.
Oyo
For the first time since Oyo State was created on
March 17, 1976, the incumbent governor of the
state, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has become the
first civilian governor to be re-elected for a
second term in office.
Besides, it was jubilation galore in many parts of
the state, especially within the camp of the APC,
when Ajimobi emerged the winner of the keenly
contested election.
He was returned winner of the governorship elec­
tion having polled a total of 327,310 votes.
The Returning Officer for the state, Prof. Ayobami
Salami, who is the deputy vice Chancellor
(Academics), Obafemi Awolowo University
(OAU), Ile-Ife, announced that he defeated his
closest rival, Senator Rashidi Ladoja of the Accord
Party, who scored 254,520, with 72,790 votes.
Ajimobi won in 20 local governments areas,
while Ladoja won in seven.
Otunba Adebayo Alao- Akala of the Labour Party
(LP) polled a total of 184,111 votes and won in six
council areas.
The governorship candidates of the PDP, Teslim
Folarin, polled 79,019 votes.
Ebonyi
The PDP governorship candidate, Chief Dave
Umahi, was declared winner of Saturday’s
election in the state.
Umahi won all the 13 local government areas in
the state to emerge winner of the keenly
contested election in the state.
The Returning Officer for the governorship
election and the Vice Chancellor of Nnamdi
Azikiwe University, Awka (NAU), Prof. Joseph
Ahaneku, while declaring the result of the election,
said Umahi scored 289, 867 votes to beat his
closest rival, Chief Edward Nkwegu of Labour
Party, who polled 124, 817 votes. APC candidate,
Senator Julius Ucha, scored 27, 583 votes.
Sokoto
The outgoing Speaker, House of Representatives,
Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, won the Sokoto
governorship election.
The state Returning Officer and Deputy Vice Chan­
cellor of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Prof.
Abdullahi Bagudu, announced the results collated
from the 23 local government areas of the state.
Prof. Bagudu said out of 926,682 total votes cast,
32, 054 votes were invalidated.
Bagudu stated that out of 958,736 votes cast
during the poll, the APC, on which platform
Tambuwal contested, scored 6747,609 votes,
while the PDP came second with 269, 074 votes.
Lagos
In the Centre of Excellence, the APC has won the
tension-soaked April 11 governorship election in
the state.
He polled a total of 811, 994 votes to defeat Mr.
Jimi Agbaje of the PDP, who scored 659, 788
votes.
The APC governorship candidate won the election
in 15 out of the 20 local government areas in the
state, while Agbaje won in Ojo, Amuwo Odofin,
Ajeromi Ifelodun, Oshodi-Isolo and Surulere local
government areas.
The Returning Officer, Prof. Isaac Adewole, who
is also the vice chancellor, University of Ibadan,
said the APC candidate, having scored the
majority of votes cast and scored 25 per cent of
votes across the 20 local government areas, was
returned as winner of the governorship poll.
Meanwhile, the governorship candidate of the
PDP for Lagos State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, yesterday
evening put a phone call through to Mr. Ambode,
the APC candidate, to congratulate him on his
victory in Saturday’s contest.
Agbaje made the call at about 6.50pm.
“I just made a phone call to congratulate Mr. Akin­
wunmi Ambode, the governorship candidate of
the All Progressives Congress,” Agbaje said,
according to a press statement by the Director of
Media and Publicity for the Jimi Agbaje Campaign
Organisation, Felix Oboagwina.
Delta
At press time, in the oil-rich state, the PDP
governorship candidate, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa,
won 16 of the 20 local government areas released
by INEC, while Chief Great Ogboru of Labour
Party clinched four local government areas. Delta
State has 25 local governments.
Rivers
The results released at press time by INEC
showed that Wike had won 19 out of the the 21 lo­
cal government areas. A breakdown of the
results showed that PDP scored 82,289 in Port
Harcourt City Local Government Area, while APC
got 26,367.
In Ikwerre Local Government Area, Wike polled
23,511 as against 10,555 votes by APC. In Etche
Local Government Area, PDP got 33,954, while
APC scored 6,488. The PDP got 31,103 votes in
Degema Local Government Area, while APC got
1,244.
Akwa Ibom
In the oil-rich state, the PDP won the
gubernatorial election by polling 996,071 votes to
beat its closest rival, the APC, which got 89,866
votes.
The Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar,
Prof. James Okpoke, who announced the result,
said a total of 1,122,836 votes were cast out of
which 12,256 were rejected and 1,110,580 votes
valid.
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) fielded the
former Secretary to the State Government, Mr.
Udom Emmanuel as its candidate while APC
fielded yet another former Secretary to the State
Government, Mr. Umana Okon Umana as its
candidate.
The Accord Party that fielded the former deputy
state chairman of PDP, Bishop Sam Akpan, came
third with 10,598 votes only, while the current
Chairman, Senate Committee on Women Affairs,
Mrs. Helen Esuene, who flew the Labour Party
flag, came a distant fourth with 8,600 votes. DPP
came last with only 10 votes.
Meanwhile, pockets of violence were recorded in
major streets of Uyo in the afternoon of Sunday
as the results were being relayed on Akwa Ibom
Broadcasting Service.
Youths in their hundreds marched through some
major streets carrying placards and calling for
“free and fair elections.”
Major junctions such as Udo Udoma by Oron
Road and Edet Akpan by Oron Road were
blocked by the youths, who made bonfires and
erected barricades,
They were, however, dispersed by security
agents who also cordoned off all access roads to
INEC office.
Imo State
Governor Rochas Okorocha and candidate of the
APC at press time was coasting to victory,
leading his closest rival, the Deputy Speaker of the
House of Representatives and candidate of the
PDP, Emeka Ihedioha. The All Progressives Grand
Alliance (APGA) candidate, Captain Emmanuel
Ihenacho, came a distant third.
From results already announced by the state
Returning Officer, Prof. Oye Ibidapo Obe,
Okorocha polled a total votes of 378,752, as
against 324,480 polled by Ihedioha.
Okorocha won in 19 local government areas out
of the 27 council areas of the state.
However, Ihedioha swept the votes in Ohaji/
Egbema, Ngor Okpala, Aboh Mbaise, Ahiazu
Mbaise, Oguta, Isiala Mbano and Ezinihitte Mbaise.
But the collation of results was put on hold over
vehement disagreement between APC and PDP
agents, forcing the returning officer to order for
the re-computation of the results in Ezinihitte
Mbaise.
Abia
At press time, the result from Abia State was not
clear as the PDP and APGA candidates were
running neck and neck, having won six local
government areas of the state each. The con­
troversial results of Osisioma where the APGA
agent, Ahamdi Nweke, alleged that there was no
election, caused a stalemate.
An international female observer, from the
European Union Election Monitoring Mission,
Sheller, supported Nweke’s claim.

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