The Independent National Electoral Commission revealed more results from the governorship election held on Saturday, showing that several governors’ chosen candidates did not fare well.
As of Monday night at 10 p.m., all the results that had been published so far showed that the All Progressives Congress had won the governorship elections in 15 states, including Sokoto, Katsina, Jigawa, Gombe, Lagos, Kwara, Niger, Yobe, Nasarawa, C’River, Ebonyi, Ogun, Benue, Kaduna, and Borno.
On the other hand, the New Nigeria Peoples Party triumphed in Kano, while the Peoples Democratic Party won Plateau, Bauchi, Oyo, Delta, Rivers, and Akwa Ibom states.
INEC suspended further collation of the governorship election results pending a review of the process of the contentious balloting in parts of the two states to help resolve the dispute between the Labour Party and the PDP in some local governments.
On Sunday, INEC declared Governors Seyi Makinde (Oyo, PDP) Dapo Abiodun (Ogun, APC), Muhammadu Yahaya (Gombe, APC), Babatunde Sanwo-Olu (Lagos, APC), Mai Mala Buni (Yobe, APC) and Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq (Kwara, APC) the winners of the governorship election.
Also, the PDP candidate in Akwa Ibom State, Pastor Umo Eno and Dr Dikko Radda of the APC in Katsina also emerged as the governors-elect.
The APC candidate in Sokoto State, Ahmed Sokoto, and Namadi Dammodi in Jigawa State, were declared governors-elect.
Kano State Governor, Umar Ganduje; Simon Lalong for Plateau State, Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto) and Samuel Ortom (Benue) were defeated by the opposition parties.
However, for Kano state, Abba Yusuf, was declared the governor-elect, defeating Yusuf Gawuna.
The INEC returning officer, Ahmad Ibrahim, announced that Yusuf won the election with 1,019,602 votes, while Gawuna got 890,705 votes.
Yusuf had contested against Ganduje in 2019 in what was regarded as a very controversial election, which went into supplementary polls in 28 out of the 44 local government areas in the state.
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