The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), conducted the governorship and state house of assembly elections on Saturday, March 18.
No fewer than 993 candidates contested the gubernatorial election in 28 states and State Houses of Assembly elections across Nigeria.
Parties like the Accord Party, ADC, APC, Labour Party, NNPP, PDP, SDP and others fielded candidates for the election, with the hope of grabbing key positions.
See State-by-State governorship Election Results From Across Nigeria…
APC’S BASSEY OTU WINS CROSS RIVER POLLS
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bassey Otu, has been declared the winner of Cross River state governorship election.
APC’s Bassey Otu was declared winner of the election by the Returning Officer for Cross River State, Professor Teddy Adias, at the INEC state headquarters in Calabar
APC’S BAGO WINS NIGER STATE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION
Umar Bago won with 82,419 votes more than his closest opponent, the PDP Candidate, Alhaji Isah Liman Kantigi.
Announcing the results around 2.45 pm, Niger Collation Officer, Professor Clement Allawa declared that the APC got 469,896 votes while the PDP got 387,477 votes.
The Labour Party got 3,415 votes, NNPP got 3,378 and APGA got 1,746 votes.
NWIFURU OF APC WINS EBONYI GUBER ELECTION
The State Returning Officer, Professor Charles Igwe said Nwifuru polled 199,131 votes cast across the 13 local governments in the State.
While Ifeanyi Odii of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored 80,191 votes to place second.
PDP’S SHERIFF DEFEATS OMO-AGEGE IN DELTA STATE
Sheriff Oborevwori, who is the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, polled 360,234.
He defeated the Deputy Senate President and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Ovie Omo-Agege.
Omo-Agege polled 240,229 to come second.
The Labour Party’s gubernatorial candidate, Deacon Ken Pela scored 48,047.
PDP WINS GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION IN PLATEAU
In Plateau State, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Caleb Mutfwang, has been declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the Saturday governorship election.
The INEC Presiding Officer, Musa Yusuf on Monday declared that Mutfwang had the highest votes beating the All Progressives Congress’ candidate, Nentawe Yilwatda.
BALA MOHAMMED DECLARED WINNER OF BAUCHI STATE ELECTION
Mohammed polled a total of 525,281 votes to beat APC’s Air Marshall Abubakar who scored 432,272 votes.
MORE RESULTS
ABDULLAHI SULE WINS RE-ELECTION BID IN NASARAWA
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declares Abdullahi Sule of the APC the winner of the governorship election in Nasarawa state.
NNPP’s ABBA YUSUF DEFEATS APC IN KANO
The governorship candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Abba Kabir Yusuf, has been declared the winner of the Kano state governorship election.
Below are the figures.
APC: 890,705
NNPP: 1,019,602
PDP: 15,957
LP: 5,409
SANWO-OLU DEFEATS RHODES-VIVOUR, ADENIRAN IN LAGOS
In Lagos, the incumbent governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, polled 762,134 votes, defeated Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of LP who polled 312,329.
Olajide Adeniran of the Peoples Democratic Party polled 62,449 votes.
The total number of registered voters in the state is 7,060,195, but the number of accredited voters for the poll was 1,182,620
APC WINS SOKOTO GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION
Ahmed Aliyu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared the winner of the Sokoto State Governorship election.
Aliyu won with a total of 453661 votes to defeat his closest rival Saidu Umar of the PDP who polled a total vote of 404632.
RADA WINS KATSINA GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION
The APC candidate polled 859,892 votes while the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Yakubu Lado scored 486,620 votes.
MAI MALA BUNI WINS YOBE GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION
APC – 317113
PDP – 104259
INUWA YAHAYA WINS GOMBE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION
The state collation officer of the election and the vice chancellor of Federal University Gashua, Professor Maimuna Waziri, declared Inuwa the winner.
He scored a total of 342, 821 votes to get re-elected as governor of the state.
According to Maimuna, PDP scored a total of 233, 131 votes while the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) candidate, Khamisu Mailantarki polled 19, 861 votes.
OTHERS
APC’s Namadi Wins Jigawa Governorship Election
Namadi won the election with 618,449 votes to defeat the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Mustapha Sule Lamido, votes, who scored 368,726 votes.
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APC DAPO ABIODUN WINS OGUN GUBER POLLS
Abiodun won the election with a total of 276 298 votes to defeat his closest rival, Oladipupo Adebutu, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 262383.
ABDULRAHMAN ABDULRASAQ WINS KWARA GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 273,424 to defeat his closest opponent — Abdullah Yahman of PDP who scored 155,490.
Hakeem Lawal of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) who got 18,922 votes.
PDP UMO ENO WINS AKWA IBOM GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION
Eno polled 354,348 to defeat his closest rivals — Akanimo Udofia of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who scored 129,602 votes and Labour Party (LP)’s Uduakobong who got 4,746 votes.
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SEYI MAKINDE RE-ELECTED AS OYO STATE GOVERNOR
Indeed, Oyo election was one of the most peaceful and it depicts what happens when a governor delivers the dividends of democracy to his people.
The Final result of Oyo state governorship election is below.
A: 38,357
APC: 256,685
LP: 1500
PDP: 563,756
