Senator Liyel Imoke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has emerged winner of the February 25 governorship election in Cross River State.

Imoke polled 451, 544 votes which was 90.11 per cent of the total votes cast in the election. His closest rival, Pastor Usani Usani of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) had 31, 026 votes.

The result was announced by the returning officer, Prof James Epoke, who is the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, after receiving results from collation officers from the local governments at the mini-theatre of the Cultural Centre Complex in Calabar on Sunday at 12: 30pm.

In attendance were national officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mike Igini, party agents who signed the result and other stakeholders.

There are 1, 242, 916 registered voters in the state. Total votes cast was 501, 117. Out of this figure valid votes cast was 489, 939 while rejected votes were 11, 178.

The results were collated from 17 out of the 18 local governments of the state. Election did not hold in Bakassi local government due to a court order served the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) late Friday, restraining it from conducting the election in the area.

Twelve political parties participated in the election.

The parties and their candidates and running mates are the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Liyel Imoke and Mr Efiok Cobham; the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Pastor Usani Usani and Mr David Okon; All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Mr Patrick Okomiso and Mr Edem Eyo-Ita; African Political System (APS), Mr Odey Ekunke and Mr Igba Julius; Labour Party (LP), Mrs Imah Nsa-Adegoke and Mr Tony Bassey Nneji ;Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), Mr Goddie Akpama and Mr Obo Okey; The United National Party for Development (UNPD), Dr Ebiti Ndok and Mr Ogar Okang.

Others are the Hope Democratic Party (HDP), Dr Theophilus Onyuku and Mrs Grace Essien; Democratic Front for a People’s Federation (DFPF), Mr James Ebri and Mr Offiong Henshaw; Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Miss Mary Ekpere and Mr Mens Ikpeme; Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), Mr Cletus Inyang and Mr Ekanem Bassey; and African Liberation Party (ALP), Mr Victor Udom and Mr Frank Achums.

Other results are ALP 325, ANPP 2235, APS 172, CDC 197, CPC 705, DFPF 182, HDP 247, LP 1922, PPA 1146 and UNPD 235.
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Sen Liyel Imoke won the election by over 451 thousand votes despite the reported low turnout by the electorate and was followed by Acn

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The governorship election
in Cross River State
Saturday was greeted by
protests by indigenes of
Day Spring in Bakassi Local
Government Area of Cross River State as the people
condemned their exclusion
from the exercise. But the state chairman of
the Peoples Democratic
Party, Ntufam Okpo Okon,
said the issue in Bakassi
had been on what
constitutes Bakassi, adding that while some are
canvassing that what
constitutes Bakassi should
be based on the Cross River
state Law No. 7, others
were supporting the Day Spring and Ikang. Senator Liyel Imoke, the
immediate past governor
of the state and the
candidate of the PDP, was
the leading contender in
the poll. Okon said: “INEC chose to
use Day Spring. What we
have told our people is that
let us work with INEC,” and
that, after the exercise,
they can follow the legal option. No fewer than 6, 000
eligible voters, who
gathered the Marina Beach
in Calabar enroute the Day
Spring Island, lamented
that they had been disenfranchised following
a court ruling that barred
the Independent National
Electoral Commission from
conducting the exercise in
the island. The protesters, led by a
former presidential adviser
on National Assembly
matters, Senator Florence
Ita-Giwa, wondered why
they were suddenly disenfranchised by a court
order which came at the
close of work on Friday. A Federal High Court in
Calabar, presided over by
Justice Adetukumbo
Ademola, had, on Friday,
stopped the conduct of the
poll and subsequent ones in accordance with ward
delineation based on the
current Bakassi LGA
created pursuant to law
No. 7 of Cross River State
House of Assembly and not based on the ward
delineation as existed
before ceding of Bakassi to
Cameroon. The suit
No: FHC/
CA/ CS/21/2012 was instituted
by Edet Etim Asuquo, Chief
Antigha Cobham, Chief
Bassey Etim and Chief
Effiong Iman for
themselves and on behalf of the Ikang people of
Ikang Clan, Esighi Clan,
Antigha Ene Eyo Clan and
Edihi Idim Ikot Eyi Clan of
Bakassi LGA against INEC
and the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Cross
River State. But Ita-Giwa said,
“Normally when there is
election, the Bakassi
people gather here to
travel by the sea to Day
Spring Island to go and vote. This is a ritual that
we have been doing and
we have done it three
times. We crossed to Day
Spring to vote during the
national assembly, presidential and state
assembly election in April
2011. As bonafide Nigerians we
have the right to exercise
our franchise where we
are registered but for some
strange reason there is a
twist of fate here. For this particular governorship
election, we are
experiencing what we
would refer to as a
‘judiciary ambush’ in the
sense that an injunction stopped INEC from going to
conduct an election in Day
Spring came was issued at
about 4pm on Friday
(February 24). There was
not even an opportunity for it to be vacated and I
believe that INEC feels
they are obliged to abide
by that injunction.” Speaking on the issue, the
Resident Electoral
Commissioner in the state,
Mr. Mike Igini, said the
commission had to comply
to the court order even when it is not happy with
the injunction. He, however, said INEC had
immediately instituted a
legal suit to address the
issue, starting that the
arguments by the
claimants in his view were not lawful. Low turnout
Meanwhile, the election
itself was characterized
by low turnout as most of
the registered voters
stayed away. While the PDP
governorship running
mate, Mr. Efiok Cobham,
attributed the apathy to
the purported court
injunction granted by an Abuja High Court, the
Labour Party governorship
candidate, Mrs. Imah Nsah
Adegoke, said the
adjustment in the date of
the election was a contributing factor as the
people has lost faith in the
INEC time table, Fraud
The candidates of the Hope
Democratic Party, HDP, Dr.
Theo Onyuku, and the
Congress for Progressive
Change, CPC, Mrs. Mary Ekpere, in the poll alleged
that the elections was
marred by fraud. Ekpere alleged that there
were multiple thumb-
printing in her polling unit,
Bokomo, in Ikom town
to shortchanged her. She also complained of
voters apathy, stressing
that out of about 1000
registered voters in her
unit, only about 100 people
were accredited for the exercise. Onyuku said he was going
to reject the outcome in its
entirety and described it as
“a sham, a charade and
blatant gang rape of
democratic process in brazen broadlight.”
He claimed that there were
violations of the electoral
act with serial defilement
of the electoral process by
the PDP. Controversy
The governorship
candidate of the All Nigeria
Peoples Party, ANPP, Chief
Patrick Okomiso, said that
the chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, lied by
saying that there was no
court order restraining the
commission from
conducting the
governorship election. There had been newspaper
reports that a federal high
court sitting in Abuja after
hearing the ex-parte
motion brought by the
ANPP candidate on alleged constitutional breaches on
the date of the election
granted an order
restraining the commission
from going on with the
election Saturday. However, addressing
candidates and members
of the 12 political parties
contesting the
governorship election in
the state, Jega insisted that there was no such
order and that the
commission took the pain
to go to the court that was
said to have granted the
injuction and was told by the judge that the order
did not exist. Okomiso
wondered why the INEC
chairman should deny
knowledge of the court
order.

is this election free and fair or not?

Under Jega,election rigging has bn perfected,low turnouts bcome massive voters figures.@least during Iwu's time,d courts cud tell some of d election were rigged& overturn it;but in dis dispensation,ballots are thumb printed to tally with inflated voters register.See how elections av bn turned to a childks tin under Jega

Another 4yrs for a sleeping and dull governor! May God help us.

naija elections. . . very funny things.

In other places, when someone isn't performing they get tossed out.

In Nigeria, they win with 90,11% of the votes.

seriously, I'm doubting this result

this whole farce so gej could get at Dic-kson

Igbo governors in 2 South-South states now.

Rivers State - Chibuike Amaechi

Cross River State - Liyel Imoke

And who told u that IMOKE is an IGBO man. Guy make more research.

^^^

Imoke is an Igbo man from Cross River.

He is from Abi, which is an Agbo (Igbo) community in Cross River.

Do some research if you do not know about the Igbo communities in Cross River state.

Imoke and his wife are Igbos.

Always PDP on -top,i wish ds defeat in south-west too.

EzeUche:

^^^

Imoke is an Igbo man from Cross River.

He is from Abi, which is an Agbo (Igbo) community in Cross River.

Do some research if you do not know about the Igbo communities in Cross River state.

Jega is also Igbo, he looks like imoke.

seunlayi:

seriously, I'm doubting this result

ekt_bear:

naija elections. . . very funny things.

In other places, when someone isn't performing they get tossed out.

In Nigeria, they win with 90,11% of the votes.

godello:

Another 4yrs for a sleeping and dull governor! May God help us.

mumu ACN people, always complaining when they lose elctions

I personally don't care. If the people want to re-elect an under-performer with 90%+ of their vote, that is up to them.

More power to 'em.

Everyone bears the consequences of decisions they make. . . won't affect me at all.

ekt_bear:

I personally don't care. If the people want to re-elect an under-performer with 90%+ of their vote, that is up to them.

More power to 'em.

Everyone bears the consequences of decisions they make. . . won't affect me at all.

You are right, like the Ekiti people are already comign to terms with the consequences of voting for the hypocritical ACN

Most of them seem fairly pleased.

Then again, given the performance of the governors who preceded him, it makes sense that they are happy with someone competent.

you are wrong. the ACN thrives on propaganda and people are getting wiser by the day

Congratulations to the Gov. Elect

PDP power to the powerless and brainless. Hahahahaha

bulksms247:

PDP power to the powerless and brainless. Hahahahaha

you can come on the Internet and sya what you like. the fact is there is no viable option to the PDP and they would continue ruling Nigeria for as long as possible. the ACN and other mushroom parties can go on whinning about rigging.

If God want to help Nigerians out of their burden, he must first wiped out the epidemic called pdp out of surface. As long as this virus called pdp continue ruling and having their ways, expect no free election, massive rigging, broad day light embezzlement , corruption in highest order, maladministration, insecurity, evil practices, voodoos, assassinations, etc. Unless popular revolution occur to wipe them out no way for nigeria.

bleep the Nigerian leaders. I am not interested.

I resides in Calabar, my wife participated in the just concluded election as an 'Observer' and she confirmed to me that the two polling unit she visited, out of over 1,000 registers voters each, one had only 50 while the other had about 80 acreditted voters which is less less than 10% in each case.

I am so suprise to see this figure that there were about 500,000 plus voters for the governorship election which is 40% plus.

EzeUche:

Igbo governors in 2 South-South states now.

Rivers State - Chibuike Amaechi

Cross River State - Liyel Imoke

donedy:

Imoke and his wife are Igbos.

Igbos are always great. That is why most every tribe wants to marry from Igbo.

May God help all cross riverians. This is a calamity. we are dead and buried.

oddy4real:

mumu ACN people, always complaining when they lose elctions

sorry dude i don't belong to any polithievcian party. But let call a spade a spade, it was reported that the election witness a very low turnout of voters but at the end, around 600 thousands votes were counted. That was why i think something might have gone wrong somewhere. And for now, pdp is the no 1 political party in nigeria, others are just there to make up the no. Watchout for how they will reclaim the sw from the propagandarist party - acn