The candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has been declared winner of Saturday’s presidential election in Nasarawa State.
Obi secured a total of 191,361 votes in the contest ahead of his closest opponent, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, who scored 172,922 votes.
Meanwhile, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party managed to score 147,093 votes.
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The presidential election results were collated and announced in Lafia on Monday by the Independent National Electoral Commission’s collation officer in Nasarawa State, Prof. Ishaya Tanko.
Tanko, who is the Vice Chancellor, University of Jos, Plateau State, added that the NNPP presidential candidate scored a total of 12,715 votes.
The Collation Officer narrated that the total registered voters in the state were 2,552,716 while the total valid votes were 540,566.
He added that the accredited voters in the state were 562,464 but the total votes cast were 556,937 while the rejected votes were 16,371.
Peter Obi Wins Abia
The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, also won the presidential election in Abia State.
The results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday saw Obi poll a total of 327,095 votes ahead its closest rival, the Peoples Democratic Party, which polled 22,676 votes.
The distribution of the presidential election results across the 17 LGAs of Abia State is as follows:
- ISIALANGWA NORTH
APC. 742
LP. 14336
PDP. 5964
- ISIKWUATO LGA
APC. 472
LP. 16,038
PDP .607 -
IKWUANO LGA
APC.407
LP. 14997
PDP. 1065 -
UKWA WEST LGA.
APC. 591
LP. 9557
PDP. 918 -
UKWA EAST LGA
APC. 264
LP. 5819
PDP. 1200 -
BENDE LGA
APC. 1545
LP. 18446
PDP. 973 -
UMUAHIA SOUTH LGA
APC 475
LP 25017
PDP 1156 -
ISIALANGWA SOUTH
APC. 772
LP. 14125
PDP. 2691 -
UGUNAGBO LGA
APC. 195
LP. 7066
PDP. 930 -
OBINGWA LGA
APC. 564
LP. 23687
PDP. 2747 -
UMUNNEOCHI LGA
APC. 608
LP. 11782
PDP. 320 -
Osisioma LGA
APC 158
LP 19,680
PDP 610 -
Aba North LGA
APC 190
LP 35,898
PDP 428 -
Umuahia North LGA
APC 795
LP 51,318
PDP 1529 -
Arochukwu LGA
APC 601
LP 14,287
PDP 526. -
Osisioma
APC 301
LP 11573
PDP 2754 -
Aba South LGA
APC 215
LP 36717
PDP 580
Tinubu leads in Rivers
The All Progressives Congress has won 10 of the 13 local government areas in Rivers State so far collated in by the Independent National Electoral Commission for last Saturday’s presidential election.
Among the 13 won by the APC is Ikwerre, the LGA of the former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi.
The Collation Officer for Ikwerre LGA, Prof. James Kpolovie, disclosed this while presenting the result to the state collation officer, Prof Charles Adias at the INEC office in Port Harcourt on Monday.
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#NigeriaElection2023: Tinubu leads Obi, Atiku in Rivers
27th February 2023
ATIKU, TINUBU AND OBI
Atiku, Tinubu and Obi
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Dennis Naku
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The All Progressives Congress has won 10 of the 13 local government areas in Rivers State so far collated in by the Independent National Electoral Commission for last Saturday’s presidential election.
Among the 13 won by the APC is Ikwerre, the LGA of the former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi.
The Collation Officer for Ikwerre LGA, Prof. James Kpolovie, disclosed this while presenting the result to the state collation officer, Prof Charles Adias at the INEC office in Port Harcourt on Monday.
Recall that Amaechi was absent during the presidential rally of the APC in Port Harcourt prior to the elections.
Close
From the results, the APC polled a total of 9,609 to defeat the Labour Party and the Peoples Democratic Party which polled 8,752 and 4,869 to come second and third respectively.
The other LGA’s won by the APC so far are Opobo/Nkoro, Asari-Toru, Abua-Odual, Bonny, Omuma, Gokana, Emuoha, Eleme, Tai, Akuku-Toru.
Meanwhile the Labour Party emerged victorious in three LGAs, namely; Bonny, Ahoada West and Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni.
The PDP on its part has so far won three LGA’s namely; Andoni, Okrika and Ogu/Bolo.
