So Far; APC wins in 13 states, PDP victorious in four

Winners of Saturday's governorship election began to emerge on Sunday afternoon with the All Progressives Congress topping the Peoples Democratic Party in the results so far released by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

The first to be officially announced victorious was Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun, who defeated PDP's Ganiyu Isiaka. Amosun of the APC is therefore set for a second term in office.

In the neigbouring Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, also of the APC became the first governor of the state to clinch a second term in office.

He defeated former governors, Rashidi Ladoja of the Accord Party and Adebayo Alao-Akala of Labour Party in the race.

While the governor polled 327,310 votes; Ladoja had 254,520 and Alao-Akala , 184,111.

APC's candidate in Lagos, Akinwunmi Ambode, polled 811,994 votes to defeat PDP's Jimi Agbaje,who scored 659,788 votes.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto); a former Speaker of the House, Aminu Masari (Katsina); and erstwhile Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nasir el-Rufai(Kaduna) also emerged victorious.

El-Rufai floored Governor Mukhtar Yero of the PDP.

The other APC governorship election winners are Governor Abdulfatai Ahmed (Kwara), Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano), Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi), Mohammed Abubakar (Bauchi), Ibrahim Geidam(Yobe) and Jibrilla Bindow (Adamawa).

Ganduje, who is the current deputy governor of Kano State polled 1,546,434 votes. His PDP rival, Salihu Tokai had 509,726 votes.

The governorship candidate of the APC in Benue State, Samuel Ortom, raced to victory by polling 387,753 votes as against PDP's Terhemen Tarzoor, who scored 296,189 votes.

Geidam polled 334, 847 votes to defeat Adamu Waziri of the PDP,who had 179, 700 votes.

PDP's candidates Udom Emmanuel, Ibrahim Dankwambo, Dave Umahi, and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi triumphed in Akwa Ibom, Gombe, Ebonyi and Enugu states respectively.

Umahi garnered 289, 867 votes as against Labour Party's Edward Nkwegu,who came second with 124, 817 votes.

Ugwuanyi polled 482,227 votes to defeat Okey Ezea of the APC, who got 43,839 votes.

Imo State Governor and APC candidate, Rochas Okorocha, was clearly winning in 20 out of 27 LGAs in the state as of 8pm on Sunday. His PDP counterpart and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha, was trailing behind.

INEC later declared the announcement of the results inconclusive.

In Gombe State, Governor Ibrahim Geidam of the PDP had an easy ride as he coasted to victory by beating his APC counterpart, Inuwa Yahaya. He scored 285,369 votes while Yahaya had 205, 132 votes.