Chart courtesy of Vanguard
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has literally decimated the Peoples Democratic Party through more-then expected electoral victories in many PDP forte.
APC has won majority of the 29 governorship seats contested on Saturday, clearing most of the states in the North and South West.
of the resulst so far declared as at press time, the APC won in 19 states and was leading in Plateau and Kebbi states while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won in Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi, Gombe and Enugu and was coasting home to victory in Rivers and Delta and Taraba.
In Lagos, APC candidate Akinwumi Ambode defeated PDP’s Jimi Agbaje in a hotly contested election, which saw PDP making in-road to the Lagos State House of Assembly winning six seats for the first time.
Senator Abiola Ajimobi also won convincingly in Ibadan breaking the fabled re-election jinx, which has dogged Oyo State politics since 1983. He defeated political power horses like Senator Rasheed Ladoja of the Accord Party; Christopher Alao Akala of the Labour Party and Teslim Folarin of the PDP among others.
States where the APC won the governorship are Kaduna, Sokoto, Niger, Borno, Adamawa, Lagos, Kwara, Katsina, Bauchi, Kano, Yobe, Zamfara, Oyo, Ogun, Benue, Imo, Nasarawa, Jigawa and Benue (see table).
In Ebonyi, it was Deputy Governor and PDP Governorship candidate, Engr Dave Umahi won the April 11 governorship election after scoring 289,867 votes to beat his closest rival, Edward Nkwegu of the Labour Party, who polled 124, 817 votes. The governorship candidate of APC, Senator Julius Ucha came third with 27, 583 votes.
Other states where APC triumphed include former PDP stronghold Buachi, home state of PDP chairman with a sitting PDP governor, Isa Yiguda.
Mr Mohammed Abubakar of the APC scored 654,934 votes to beat his main challenger, Auwal Jatau of the PDP who scored 282,650 votes across the 20 local councils of the state.
Abubakar won in 19 local councils while Jatau won only in Bogoro local government area of the state where he polled 16,980 votes as against the APC which had 9,914 votes. In Kaduna State, Governorship candidate of the APC, Mallam Nasir El Rufai his main rival incumbent Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero of the PDP, who conceded defeat even before the final announcement of the results in favour of the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. El-Rufai tweeted that Governor Yero had called to congratulate him. El Rufai tweeted at 3:20pm yesterday saying, “I just received a phone call from Gov. Mukhtar Yero congratulating me for winning the Kaduna guber election. I thanked him too”. In Lagos, Akinwunmi Ambode of the APC polled 811,994 votes to defeat Agbaje of the PDP, who polled 659,788 votes.
APC won in 15 local government areas, while PDP won in five local government areas across the state.
The returning officer for Lagos State governorship election, Prof Isaac Adewole, INEC, announced Ambode as winner at about 7. 30 pm having satisfied all the requirements in line with the electoral act.
Meanwhile, PDP made in-road into the Lagos State House of Assembly, winning six of the 18 seats so far declared. Results for 22 constituencies are being awaited. Among the six PDP House members-elect is an Igbo, Mr Emeka Idimogu elected to represent Oshodi-Isolo Constituency II. This is as Nollywood star, Desmond Elliot of the All Progressives Congress (APC) won in Surulere I constituency and Lai Mohammed’s son, Folajimi also of the APC won the Ikeja I seat.In Ogun tate, APC’s Ibikunle Amosun retained his seat, warding a strong challenge from PDP’s candidate.
In Kwara, Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed was declared winner of the election. He polled 295,832 votes to defeat the candidate of the PDP Senator Simeon Ajibola who scored 115,220 votes and came far second while the candidate of Labour Party Dr Mike Omotosho polled 2,973 to come third. 
In Enugu, The PDP, candidate in the April 11 governorship election, Mr. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has won with 482,277 votes against his main challenger of the APC, Okey Ezea who polled 43,839 votes. Returning officer of the election, Prof. Hillary Edoga, Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, announced the result precisely at 3.36 p.m. at the INEC office, Independence Layout, Enugu.
Meanwhile, tThe APC, governorship candidate in Benue State, Dr. Samuel Ortom has emerged the winner of last Saturday’s governorship elections in the state.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has won the Sokoto State governorship election. Tambuwal polled the highest number of votes in Saturday’s governorship election in the state,polling .647,609 votes, while the PDP candidate, Sen. Abdallah Wali scored 269,074.
The Speaker won in all 23 local government areas, while his PDP challenger did not win in any local government. In the State House of Assembly election, the APC won 28 seats, PDP won two while PDM got one seat.
