APC Wins 19 States, Leading In Result coalation in Four Others

All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday, swept into its kitty most
of the 29 governorship seats contested at the weekend. The huge
victory has catapulted the party to the enviable position of the
dominant party in Nigeria.
With the results announced at press time, the APC won in 19 states and
was leading in Plateau and Kebbi states while the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) won in Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi, Gombe and Enugu and was coasting
home to victory in Rivers, Delta and Taraba.
This came as the PDP made in-road to the Lagos State House of Assembly
winning six seats for the first time as APC's Mr Akinwunmi Ambode won
a tightly contested governorship election beating PDP's Jimi Agbaje.

Meanwhile, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, yesterday, broke the re-election
jinx, which has dogged Oyo State politics since 1983 by winning the
governorship polls after fencing off Senator Rasheed Ladoja of the
Accord Party; Christopher Alao Akala of the Labour Party and Teslim
Folarin of the PDP among others.
States where the APC won the governorship are Kaduna, Sokoto, Niger,
Borno, Adamawa, Lagos, Kwara, Katsina, Bauchi, Kano, Yobe, Zamfara,
Oyo, Ogun, Benue, Imo, Nasarawa, Jigawa and Benue (see table)