Final Results Of Governorship Election Across Nigeria

March 20, 2023 Mary

No fewer than 993 candidates contested the gubernatorial election in 28 states and state houses of assembly elections across the country, with results already trickling in.

Parties like the PDP, APC, SDP, Accord Party, Labour Party, ADC, NNPP, and others fielded candidates for the election with the hope of grabbing key positions.

Naija News reports that the Labour Party and the NNPP would likely cause an upset, with many analysts predicting that the parties grab some states for themselves.

However, the APC and PDP, who have claimed to have the structure and spread, worked to prevent such a scenario.

Stick with Naija News as we bring you State-by-State governorship election results from across Nigeria…

APC’S BASSEY OTU WINS CROSS RIVER POLLS

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bassey Otu, has been declared the winner of Cross River state governorship election.

APC’s Bassey Otu was declared winner of the election by the Returning Officer for Cross River State, Prof Teddy Adias, at the INEC state headquarters in Calabar

APC’S BAGO DECLARED WINNER OF NIGER STATE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION

Umar Bago won with 82,419 votes more than his closest opponent, the PDP Candidate, Alhaji Isah Liman Kantigi.

Announcing the results around 2.45 pm, Niger Collation Officer, Professor Clement Allawa declared that the APC got 469,896 votes while the PDP got 387,477 votes.

The Labour Party got 3,415 votes, NNPP got 3,378 and APGA got 1,746 votes.

NWIFURU OF APC WINS EBONYI GUBER ELECTION

The State Returning Officer, Prof Charles Igwe said Nwifuru polled 199,131 votes cast across the 13 local governments in the State.

While Ifeanyi Odii of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored 80,191 votes to place second.

PDP’S SHERIFF DEFEATS OMO-AGEGE IN DELTA STATE

Sheriff Oborevwori, who is the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, polled 360,234 to defeat the Deputy Senate President and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Ovie Omo-Agege.

APC’s Omo-Agege polled 240,229 to come second ahead of Labour Party’s gubernatorial candidate, Deacon Ken Pela who scored 48,047.

PDP WINS GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION IN PLATEAU

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau State, Caleb Mutfwang, has been declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the Saturday governorship election.

The INEC Presiding Officer, Musa Yusuf on Monday declared that Mutfwang had the highest votes beating the All Progressives Candidate, Nentawe Yilwatda.

BALA MOHAMMED DECLARED WINNER OF BAUCHI STATE ELECTION

Mohammed polled a total of 525,281 votes against that of the APC’s Air Marshall Abubakar who scored 432,272 votes.

ABDULLAHI SULE WINS RE-ELECTION BID

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Abdullahi Sule, candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of the governorship election in Nasarawa state.

NNPP’s Abba Yusuf Defeats APC, Wins Kano Guber Election

The governorship candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Abba Kabir Yusuf, has been declared the winner of the Kano state governorship election.

APC: 890,705

NNPP: 1,019,602

PDP: 15,957

LP: 5,409

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