Result of Saturday’s governorship election which have been trickling in indicate that the two major political parties in the country are costing home to victories in most of the states where they arecurrently in control except for Kaduna State where the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressive Change, APC, Mallam Nasir El Rufai, has established unsurmountable lead over the incumbent governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero.
Results available to us show that the PDP is in clear lead in Enugu, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Delta, Taraba, Ebonyi, but APC is in the lead in Ogun, Kaduna and Sokoto.
Election results from 15 of the 23 Local Government Areas, LGAs, of Kaduna States are:
Giwa
APC: 48,248
PDP: 14197
Igabi
APC: 88,361
PDP: 20,180
Ikara
APC: 37,521
PDP: 16,836
Kaduna South
APC: 120,535
PDP 15,665
Chikun
APC: 36,920
PDP: 27,248
Jema’ah
APC: 39,760
PDP: 45,272
Kaduna North
APC: 106,915
PDP: 12,465
Kagarko
APC: 24,846
PDP: 15,413
Kajuru
APC: 18,522
PDP: 21,296
Kaura
APC: 37,521
PDP: 16,836
Kubau
APC: 53,934
PDP: 14,034
Makarfi
APC: 37,759,
PDP: 11,084
Sabon Gari
APC: 61,107
PDP: 12,504
Soba
APC: 55,836
PDP: 12,743
Chikun
APC: 36,920
PDP: 27,248
Total
APC : 864, 693 votes
PDP 293,201 votes
Mallam El Rufai of the APC scored 864,693 votes over Alh. Mukhtar Ramalan Yero of the PDP, who scored 293,201 votes.
Results of Ebonyi Governorship election as presented by collation officers to INEC in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi state capital are:
1. OHOAZARA LGA
APC. – 364
APGA. – 92
LP. – 2307
PDP. – 32,402
2. EZZA SOUTH
APC. – 2135
APGA. – 186
LP. – 8,457
PDP. – 18,095
3. IVO LGA
APC. – 346
APGA – 229
LP. – 6497
PDP. – 11,729
5. EBONYI LGA
APC. – 1249
APGA – 621
LP. – 12431
PDP. – 14,229
6. AFIKPO NORTH
APC. – 446
APGA – 289
LP. – 9406
PDP. – 15,519
7. AFiKPO SOUTH
APC. – 307
APGA – 267
LP. – 3456
PDP. – 28,380
8. ABAKALIKI
APC. – 1255
APGA – 804
LP. – 16,670
PDP. – 18,779
ENUGU-ANINRI PDP 39216,APC 886 ,
ENUGU NORTH PDP 17829 APC 2050,
ENUGU SOUTH PDP 15889 APC 16333,
EZEAGU PDP 32995 APC 1307,
IGBOETITI 211524 APC 2256,
IGBOEZE NORTH PDP51948, APC 2482,
IGBOEZE SOUTH PDP 18120 APC 6231,
ISIUZO PDP21651, APC 1813,
NKANUEAST PDP 12571 APC 975,
NKANUWEST PDP 16683 APC 1148,
NSUKKA PDP 41625 APC9416,
OJIRIVER PDP 13484 APC 2394,
UDENU PDP 40120 APC 1463,
UDI PDP 26892 APC3934,
UZO UWANI PDP 17947 APC 1915
Note results of two LGAs are still being collated.
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has also taken early lead in the governorship election results so far released in some local government areas in Taraba state.
Zing local government area, APC 5,224 PDP 28,005.
Lau local government area, APC 13,094 PDP 20,595.
Ardo Kola local government area, APC 13,042 PDP 14,041
Jalingo local government area, APC 37,914 PDP 19,047
Twelve local government areas and Yantu Development area are yet to alive as at the time of the report.
Tambuwal early lead in Sokoto
With fourteen local government areas announced so far in Sokoto State, the Candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has taken an early lead as he has won in all local government so far.
Prof. Abdul Bagudu, the state returning officer just called for a break as they expect results from the remaining nine local government areas.
The announcement which commenced this morning at about 7.07am will continue any moment from now.
Results announced so far are:
Wurno APC 32073 PDP 6876
Dange / Shunni APC 28006 PDP 12,244
Silame : APC 20,335 PDP 7800
Gwadabawa : APC 33227.PDP 11,788.
Kware : APC 23,137 PDP 10,041
Goronyo: APC 29,095 PDP 12760
Rabah : APC 19,481 PDP 8846
Shagari : APC 26,197 PDP 10,126
Binji : APC 17,153 PDP 5975
Tureta : APC 14,851 PDP 9235
Bodinga : APC 24513 PDP 12179
Sokoto south : APC 42,994 PDP 19,421
Isa : APC 19,626 PDP 15,695
Sokoto north : APC 42,977 PDP 17,202.
UYO-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the results of the governorship election in Akwa-Ibom State from eleven out of the 31 government areas of the state.
Of the results so far released, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state is leading the other 15 political parties with overwhelming votes.
The results released were those of Onnah, Ini, Okobo, Nsit Atai, Etim Ekpo, Ika and Nsit Ibom local government areas.
Others were those of Ibiono-Ibom, Oruk Anam, Etinan and Obot Akara.
The results of the elections in the eleven local government areas were declared by their Presiding Officers in the presence of the state’s Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Austin Okojie and the INEC Chief Returning Officer of the state and incidentally, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Professor James Spoke.
But the Governorship candidates of the Accord Party, Bishop Sam Akpan and the All Progressives Congress (APC), Obong Umana Umana have rejected the results so far declared alleging gross irregularities and massive abuse of the electoral process by the PDP.
The aggrieved governorship candidates accused the PDP of hijacking election materials especially, result sheets where they took to the private residence of the party chieftains to record scores for their candidate, Mr. Udom Emmanuel.
Exit polls and early results from the polling units indicated that the incumbent governor of Ogun State and candidate of All Progressives Congress, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, and the APC candidate in Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, who is the incumbent Speaker of the House of Representatives, as well as the Peoples Democratic Party candidate in Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, and his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, might be winning the race in their states.
Okowa was leading in his Delta North senatorial district, with reports of excellent performance in the other two senatorial zones. In Owa- Oyibu, ward 1, PDP scored 5,145 votes, APC polled 1 vote, and Labour Party had 1 vote. In Ute-Okpu, ward 9, PDP had 1,953 votes, APC had 3 votes, and Labour Party had 8 votes.
Unofficial results from Ogun State put Amosun ahead in many of the polling units. In Ifo local government, ward 007, Oke Aro unit 011, PDP polled 8 votes, Social Democratic Party scored 7 votes, and APC scored 122 votes. At polling unit 03 ward 03, Remo-North local government, PDP scored 179, APC scored 130. Others included ward 6, Sagamu, unit 8, APC 205, PDP 83; ward 1, Ifo local government, APC 1,891, PDP 635, SDP 158; ward 9 Sagamu local government, APC 1,429, PDP 612; Ado Odo-Ota local government, APC 8,787, PDP 2,987, SDP 740; Ijebu Ode local government, APC 2,754, PDP 2,699, SDP 187; Ajuwon/Akute, Ifo local government final results, APC 4,225, PDP 861, SDP 313; ward 6 Sagamu unit 8, APC 205, PDP 83; Ifo 012, SDP 22, APC 108, PDP 38; Arigbajo ward 3, Ewekoro local government, APC 1,063, PDP 292, SDP 56.
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