The Governorship and State House of Assembly elections conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission was held on March 18, across 28 out of 36 states.
INEC has thus far, announced winners from 24 states, with others either been suspended or pending.
The results from the governorship election of Oyo state was the first to be announced by the commission on Monday, with the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party and incumbent Governor of the state, Seyi Makinde, emerging as the winner of the poll.
The governorship election was conducted alongside the House of Assembly elections as well for the 28 concerned states. This is coming three weeks after a fiercely contested presidential election was conducted, producing the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as the President-elect, as announced by INEC.
Below are the results of the governorship election from the major contenders in each state as announced by INEC:
Oyo State Result
APC – 256,685 votes
PDP – 563,756 votes – WINNER
LP – 1,500 votes
ACCORD – 38,357 votes
Akwa Ibom State Result
APC – 129,602 votes
PDP – 354,348 votes – WINNER
LP – 4,746 votes
NNPP – 12,509 votes
Ogun State Result
APC – 276,298 votes – WINNER
PDP – 262,383 votes
ADC – 94,754 votes
Yobe State Result
APC – 317,113 votes – WINNER
NNPP – 14,246 votes
PDP – 104,259 votes
Jigawa State Result
APC – 618,449 votes – WINNER
PDP – 368,726 votes
NNPP – 37,156 votes
Gombe State Result
APC – 342,821 votes – WINNER
PDP – 233,131 votes
NNPP – 19,861 votes
Kwara State Result
APC – 273,424 votes – WINNER
PDP – 155,490 votes
SDP – 18,922 votes
Katsina State Result
APC – 859,892 votes – WINNER
PDP – 486,620 votes
NNPP – 8,264 votes
Lagos State Result
APC – 762,134 votes – WINNER
LP – 312,329 votes
PDP – 62,449 votes
SDP – 6,078 votes
Sokoto State Result
APC – 453, 661 votes – WINNER
PDP – 404,632 votes
Kano State Result
APC – 89,0705 votes
NNPP – 1,019,602 votes – WINNER
PDP – 15,957 votes
Plateau State Result
PDP – 525,299 votes – WINNER
APC – 481,370 votes
Niger State Result
APC – 469,896 votes – WINNER
PDP – 387,476 votes
Delta State Result
APC – 240,229 votes – WINNER
APGA – 11,021 votes
LP – 48,047 votes
PDP – 360,234 votes
Cross River State Result
APC – 258,619 votes – WINNER
PDP – 179,636 votes
Ebonyi State Result
APC – 199,131 votes – WINNER
PDP – 80,191 votes
APGA – 52,189 votes
Borno State Result
APC – 545,542 votes – WINNER
PDP – 82,147 votes
LP – 1,517 votes
Benue State Result
APC – 473,933 votes – WINNER
PDP – 223,913 votes
Rivers State Result
APC – 95,274 votes
PDP – 302,614 votes – WINNER
Kaduna State Result
APC – 730,002 votes – WINNER
LP – 58,285 votes
NNPP – 21,405 votes
PDP – 719,196 votes
Bauchi State Result
APC – 432,272 votes
PDP – 525,280 votes – WINNER
Zamfara State Result
APC – 311,976 votes
PDP – 377,726 votes – WINNER
Taraba State Result
APC – 142,502 votes
NNPP – 202,277 votes
PDP – 257,926 votes – WINNER
Nasarawa State Result
APC – 347,209 votes – WINNER
PDP – 286,209 votes
Enugu and Abia state Result
INEC has suspended the results collation in some parts of Abia and Enugu states.
Abia state Electoral Officer, Professor Nnenna, announced that the collation of results for the state governorship results will remain suspended till Tuesday 21 2023.
According to Nnenna, he received the order from INEC national headquarters to suspend collation of results from Obingwa Local Government Area of the state after hoodlums reportedly invaded their office in that LGA.
Adamawa State Result
INEC declared the Adamawa state governorship election inconclusive on the grounds of the votes margin between the APC and PDP candidates in the state.
The APC candidate, Senator Aishatu Dahiru aka. Binani polled 390,275 votes, while, the incumbent Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party polled 421,524 votes.
The Labour Party candidate, Alex Otti, has been declared the winner of the Abia State governorship election, following the declaration of results, of the most controversial Obingwa Local Government Area of the State on Wednesday.
After the collation of the outstanding results of the election, the Peoples Democratic Party scored 9,962 votes and while the Labour Party, 3,776 votes in the long awaited result.
Meanwhile, the LP has won in 10 LGAs, the PDP in six LGAs, and the Young Peoples Party in one LG, earlier.
PDP – 88,526
LP – 175,466
