2023 Election Update: Outcome Of Governorship Election From Nine States
Governorship elections were held in 28 states while state House of Assembly elections were held across Nigeria on Saturday, March 18.
INEC officials in some states have declared some candidates winners of their respective states for the governorship poll, which collation of results is still ongoing in some parts of the country.
The Nigerian Voice brings to you State-by-State governorship election results from nine states of the federation.
SANWO-OLU DEFEATS RHODES-VIVOUR, ADENIRAN IN LAGOS
Sanwo-Olu, who polled 762,134 votes, defeated his closest rival, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party who polled 312,329 and followed by Olajide Adeniran of the Peoples Democratic Party who polled 62,449 votes.
The total number of registered voters in the state is 7,060,195, but the number of accredited voters for the poll was 1,182,620
APC WINS SOKOTO GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION
Ahmed Aliyu of the All Progressives Congress(APC) has been declared the winner of the Sokoto State Governorship election.
Naija News reports that Aliyu won with a total of 453661 votes to defeat his closest rival Saidu Umar of the PDP who polled a total vote of 404632.
RADA WINS KATSINA GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION
The APC candidate polled 859,892 votes while the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Yakubu Lado scored 486,620 votes.
MAI MALA BUNI WINS YOBE GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION
APC – 317113
PDP – 104259
INUWA YAHAYA WINS GOMBE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION
The state collation officer of the election and the vice chancellor of federal university Gashua, Professor Maimuna Waziri, while declaring Inuwa as winner, said he scored a total of 342, 821 votes to get re-elected as governor of the state.
According to Maimuna, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mohammed Barde scored a total of 233, 131 votes while the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) candidate, Khamisu Mailantarki polled 19, 861 votes.
APC’s Namadi Wins Jigawa Governorship Election
Alhaji Namadi won the election with 618,449 votes to defeat the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Mustapha Sule Lamido, votes, who scored 368,726 votes.
APC DAPO ABIODUN WINS OGUN GUBER POLLS
Abiodun won the election with a total of 276 298 votes to defeat his closest rival, Oladipupo Adebutu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 262383.
ABDULRAHMAN ABDULRASAQ WINS KWARA GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION
The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate polled 273,424 to defeat his closest opponents — Abdullah Yahman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 155,490 and Hakeem Lawal of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) who got 18,922 votes.
PDP UMO ENO WINS AKWA IBOM GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION
Eno polled 354,348 to defeat his closest rivals — Akanimo Udofia of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who scored 129,602 votes and Labour Party (LP)’s Uduakobong who got 4,746 votes.
SEYI MAKINDE RE-ELECTED AS OYO STATE GOVERNOR
Final result of Oyo state governorship election
A: 38,357
APC: 256,685
LP: 1500
PDP: 563,756