Governorship Elections: APC Win 15 States; PDP 11

Governorship Elections: APC Win 15 States; PDP 11

A clearer picture has now emerged of how the two dominant political parties performed in this year’s governorship elections across the country.

Elections held in 29 of the 36 states this year, and results for 26 states are now fully in following the supplementary poll on Saturday.

Elections did not hold in Kogi, Edo, Ekiti, Bayelsa, Ondo and Anambra this year.

A breakdown of the results from the 26 states showed that the All Progressives Congress, which controls the centre, won in 15 states; while the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party laid claim to 11 states.

Adamawa, Bauchi and Rivers are the remaining three of the total 29 states that held governorship polls on March 9 but whose results are still outstanding as of the evening of March 24.

As results from those three states stand, the PDP appeared poised to win each of them, which would likely expand its states to 14.

The PDP is leading in Adamawa from the March 9 results, but a supplementary election that was scheduled to wrap up the state was delayed by a court ruling. It is however expected that PDP’s Ahmadu Fintiri would defeat Governor Jibrilla Bindow based on the already declared results and the analysis of collected PVCs in places where supplementary poll will hold.

In Bauchi, PDP’s Bala Mohammed, erstwhile Abuja minister, has all but defeated Governor Mohammed Abubakar, as results from Saturdays supplementary poll showed he had expanded his lead over the incumbent.

The results from Bauchi are being held due to a court order that prohibited further collation of results from Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area. But an examination of the already declared results show the PDP candidate poised for victory even without that LGA.

Although INEC has not collated results from Rivers State, the state’s status as a PDP stronghold, as with the remaining states in the core Niger-Delta, has positioned Governor Nyesom Wike for a possible second term.

The PDP’s chances in Rivers were bolstered by the failure of APC to field candidates in the election, after the Supreme Court found that the party did not satisfy election guidelines to have a governorship candidate in the state.

The results of the election also show that at least four states changed leadership between APC and PDP. Kwara and Gombe that are currently governed by the PDP were won by the APC while Imo and Oyo that are governed by the APC have now been won by the PDP.

See how APC and PDP won governorship seats across the 29 states below:Search:

Abia
PDP	261127
APC	99574
Adamawa (Inconclusive)
PDP	367611
APC	334995
Akwa Ibom
PDP	520163
APC	172244
Bauchi (Inconclusive)
PDP	469512
APC	465456
Benue
PDP	434473
APC	345155
Borno
APC	1175445
PDP	66215
Cross River
PDP	381484
APC	131161
Delta
PDP	925274
APC	215038
Ebonyi
PDP	393049
APC	135903
Enugu
PDP	449935
APC	10423
Gombe
APC	364179
PDP	222868
Imo
PDP	273404
AA	190364
Jigawa
APC	810933
PDP	288356
Kaduna
APC	1044710
PDP	814168
Kano
PDP	1024713
APC	1033695
Katsina
APC	1178868
PDP	488705
Kebbi
APC	673717
PDP	102625
Kwara
APC	331546
PDP	115310
Lagos
APC	739445	75.65
PDP	206141
Nasarawa
APC	327229
PDP	184259
Niger
APC	526351
PDP	298056
Ogun
APC	241670
APM	222153
Oyo
PDP	515621
APC	357982
Plateau
APC	562109
PDP	559437
Rivers (Undeclared)
Sokoto
PDP	512002
APC	511660
Taraba
PDP	520433
APC	362735
Yobe
APC	444013
PDP	95803
Zamfara
APC	534541
PDP	189452

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