There is jubilation in the camp of Governor Godwin Obaseki of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday over the outcome of the results announced so far by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Obaseki’s supporters who were monitoring the announcements from a situation room danced and loudly chanted Korede Bello’s popular song titled ‘God win’ to celebrate their own candidate, Godwin Obaseki who recorded more votes from the results of the 14 Local Governments declared so far by INEC.
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Although 14 political parties have fielded candidates for the election, it is a two-way race between the APC and PDP.
So far, PDP has garnered over 240,935 while APC had 154, 192 votes from the declared results in the 13 LGAs.
Obaseki is leading Ize-Iyamu by a wide margin of over 80,000 votes.
See the results announced so far:
The LGAs announced so far are:
Egor local government area APC – 10202, PDP – 27621
Uhunmwonde APC – 5972, PDP – 10022
Ikpoba-Okha APC – 18218, PDP – 41030
Oredo APC 18365, PDP – 43498
Ovia North East APC – 9907, PDP-16937
Igueben APC – 5199, PDP – 7879 Esan
North East APC – 6556, PDP – 13579
Esan Central APC -6719, PDP – 10694
Owan West APC – 11193, PDP-11485
Etsako West APC-26,140, PDP- 17959
Esan South East APC – 9237, PDP – 10563
Owan East APC – 19295, PDP-14762
Esan West APC – 7189, PDP – 17434