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Governorship Elections: APC Holds 15 States; PDP 11; Three Outstanding (FULL DETAILS)

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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
PDP261127
APC99574
Adamawa (Inconclusive)
PDP367611
APC334995
Akwa Ibom
PDP520163
APC172244
Bauchi (Inconclusive)
PDP469512
APC465456
Benue  
PDP434473
APC345155
Borno
APC1175445
PDP66215
Cross River
PDP381484
APC131161
Delta
PDP925274
APC215038
Ebonyi
PDP393049
APC135903
Enugu
PDP449935
APC10423
Gombe
APC364179
PDP222868
Imo
PDP273404
AA190364
Jigawa
APC810933
PDP288356
Kaduna
APC1044710
PDP814168
Kano
PDP1024713
APC1033695
Katsina
APC1178868
PDP488705
Kebbi
APC673717
PDP102625
Kwara
APC331546
PDP115310
Lagos
APC73944575.65
PDP206141
Nasarawa
APC327229
PDP184259
Niger
APC526351
PDP298056
Ogun
APC241670
APM222153
Oyo  
PDP515621
APC357982
Plateau
APC562109
PDP559437
Rivers (Undeclared)
Sokoto
PDP512002
APC511660
Taraba
PDP520433
APC362735
Yobe
APC444013
PDP95803
Zamfara
APC534541
PDP189452

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