APC sweeps Governor poll

LAGOS — WITH ferocious intensity, the All Progressives Congress
(APC), yesterday, swept into its kitty most of the 29 governorship
seats contested at the weekend. The huge victory has catapulted the
party to the enviable position of the dominant party in Nigeria.
With the results announced at press time, the APC won in 19 states
and was leading in Plateau and Kebbi states while the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) won in Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi, Gombe and Enugu
and was coasting home to victory in Rivers, Delta and Taraba.
This came as the PDP made in-road to the Lagos State House of
Assembly winning six seats for the first time as APC’s Mr Akinwunmi
Ambode won a tightly contested governorship election beating PDP’s
Jimi Agbaje.
Meanwhile, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, yesterday, broke the re-election
jinx, which has dogged Oyo State politics since 1983 by winning the
governorship polls after fencing off Senator Rasheed Ladoja of the
Accord Party; Christopher Alao Akala of the Labour Party and Teslim
Folarin of the PDP among others.
States where the APC won the governorship are Kaduna, Sokoto,
Niger, Borno, Adamawa, Lagos, Kwara, Katsina, Bauchi, Kano, Yobe,
Zamfara, Oyo, Ogun, Benue, Imo, Nasarawa, Jigawa and Benue (see
table).

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