2019 Guber Poll: INEC Declares 22 States, APC 13 – PDP 9

BY COBHAM NSA, ABUJA – Election results so far declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the 29 States Gubernatorial and 36 States House of Assembly elections across Nigeria indicate that the ruling All progressives Congress (APC) is leading in 13 States.

The collated results as at Tuesday morning, March 12, showed the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) making huge impact with its impressive victories recorded in nine States.

Though the APC lost Imo and Oyo States to the PDP in interesting circumstances, it recorded victories in Gombe and Kwara States with its candidates’ remarkable showing during the March 9 poll.

Meanwhile, the electoral umpire, INEC has declared the exercise inconclusive in six states of Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Kano, Plateau and Sokoto.

The Commission, which cited cancelled votes and margins of winning votes between the leading candidates and runners-up in the elections for its decision, is expected to announce a new date for re-run polls in the affected states soon.

However, Rivers, which is the 29^th State that the governorship elections should have taken place had INEC suspending the exercise mid-way due to obvious security threats to its electoral officials, violence and disruption of the process by some political thugs.

Below are the states, parties and governors-elect as announced by INEC

      STATE                            PARTY       GOV-ELECT

1. Abia                               PDP           Okezie Ikpeazu
2. Akwa Ibom                 PDP           Udom Emmanuel
3. Borno                           APC            Babagana Azulum
4. Cross River                PDP            Ben Ayade
5. Delta                             PDP            Ifeanyi Okowa
6. Ebonyi                          PDP           Dave Umahi
7. Enugu                           PDP           Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi
8. Gombe                          APC           Inuwa Yahaya
9. Imo                                PDP           Emeka Ihedioha
10. Jigawa                          APC           Muhammad Badaru
11. Kaduna                        APC           Nasir El Rufai
12. Katsina                        APC           Aminu Bello Masari
13. Kebbi                            APC           Atiku Bagudu
14. Kwara                           APC          Abdulrazaq Abdulrahman
15. Lagos                            APC           Babajide Sanwo-Olu
16. Nasarawa                    APC          Abdullahi Sule
17. Niger                             APC          Abubakar Sani Bello
18. Ogun                              APC          Dapo Abiodun
19. Oyo                                 PDP          Seyi Makinde
20. Taraba                          PDP          Darius Ishaku
21. Yobe                              APC          Mai Mala Buni
22. Zamfara                       APC          Mukhtar Shehu Idris