The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Delta State Governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ifeanyi Okowa winner of the March 9 governorship election held in the State.
TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Okowa was declared winner by Prof. Serth Accra Jaja, INEC State collation officer, defeating Great Ogboru of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
While giving details of the results, Prof. Jaja said the state has a total of 2,831,205 registered voters, adding that 1,188,784 were accredited.
He said a total of 1,178,335 votes were cast during the election, out of which 1,154,188 votes were valid while 24,147 were rejected.
In the final result as collated, APC scored 215,938 while PDP polled 925,274 votes.
The various political parties agents signed the result sheet before the formal declaration of winner.
INEC’s State collation officer, Prof. Jaja after the signing of results sheets formally declared Okowa winner at about 12:30pm.
How the 25 LGAs in Delta State voted
01. Ukwuani
APC – 7264
PDP – 18,328
02. Ethiope East
APC – 21,141
PDP – 11,489
03. Ethiope West
APC – 6,211
PDP – 62,044
04. Ika South
APC – 3,877
PDP – 33,371
05. Ika North East
APC – 2,303
PDP – 67,417
06. Patani
APC – 3,288
PDP – 19,683
07. Oshimili South
APC – 2,700
PDP – 54,766
08. Okpe
APC – 9,424
PDP – 20,415
09. Aniocha North
APC – 4,653
PDP – 17,054
10. Aniocha South
APC – 3,138
PDP – 20,947
11. Isoko South
APC – 14,259
PDP – 43,730
12. Oshimili North
APC – 2,906
PDP – 37,744
13. Isoko North
APC – 9,817
PDP – 29,648
14. Sapele
APC – 10,457
PDP – 18,572
15. Ndokwa East
APC – 4,306
PDP – 30,670
16. Ughelli South
APC – 20,233
PDP – 32,086
17. Udu
APC – 8,605
PDP – 9,042
18. Warri South
APC – 12,982
PDP – 34,977
19. Bomadi
APC – 4,437
PDP – 63,851
20. Uvwie
APC – 10,467
PDP – 15,455
21. Warri South West
APC – 10,906
PDP – 139,534
22. Warri North
APC – 11,116
PDP – 44,713
23. Ughelli North
APC – 22,081
PDP – 19, 045
24. Burutu
APC – 3,645
PDP – 49,722
25. Ndokwa West
APC – 5,722
PDP – 30,971
APC wants election result in Delta cancelled
Meanwhile, the APC in Delta State has called for the cancellation of result of the March 9 elections held in the State, citing various reasons.
The APC in the State called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to cancel the governorship election result, accusing the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of ballot snatching, over voting, buying of votes and impunity during the Saturday election.
The Delta State APC Campaign Council and the governorship candidate of the party, Great Ovedje Ogboru had also condemned the conduct of the governorship and state assembly elections.
In a statement, the party Chairman, Prophet Jones Erue said the election was marred by violence, he said led to the death of three persons.
Erue said the March 9 election was the worst election ever conducted in the State, he alleges PDP thugs armed with weapons, snatched and burnt ballot papers and result sheets in APC strong-holds.
He also alleges that from Delta North to South and Central, PDP thugs had exhibited a rapacious thirst for blood and an eerie appetite for violence as they left many innocent voters in pool of blood, accusing security agents of aiding PDP thugs to cart away ballot boxes at the unit, wards and collation centers.
“The object of their gory adventure was to tilt the election results in favour of the PDP. This unpatriotic and satanic objective was indeed achieved but not without exposing their unabashed criminality to grab power so they can subject Deltans to another four years of exploitation and crude pillage of our collective patrimony.
“Indeed the disparity between the INEC card readers and records of accreditation and the votes being declared at the Collation Centers across the state exposed their crass breach of the electoral process and villainous infringement of the law, since the INEC Chairman, Prof. Yakubu had stated that where there are more voters than the number recorded by the card readers, the results in that area shall be annulled.
“Delta APC condemns and rejects in totality the result of the governorship election held in Delta state on Saturday, March 9, 2019 and call on the INEC Chairman to instantly annul the result and to re-conduct same in the nearest date possible in line with extant laws and with all necessary logistics put in place to ensure a free and fair election.
“INEC has already demonstrated its preparedness to apply drastic measures where there is a clear breach of the electoral process through its suspension of the Rivers state election and we urge the electoral umpire to apply same rule in the case of Delta to further underscore its consistency, commitment and determination to conduct a free and fair elections in all states in Nigeria,” Erue said.