Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, has made some massive wins in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, taking four out of the six Area Councils.
Obi who had been in an early lead since Sunday took Bwari, Kuje, Gwagwalada and AMAC with a good number of votes.
In the final collation, the LP Candidate polled a total of 281,717 votes beating the APC who polled 90,912 votes.
The PDP came in third place with a total vote of 74,193 votes.
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Below is a breakdown of the total votes for Abuja
Bwari
APC 13156
PDP 10835
LP 67198
REGISTERED VOTERS 279793
ACCREDITED VOTERS
960444
KUJE
APC 10648
PDP 10028
LP 14257
REGISTERED VOTERS 45123
ACCREDITED VOTERS 37269
KWALI
APC 11242
PDP 9054
LP 7302
REGISTERED VOTERS 91196
ACCREDITED VOTERS 29273
GWAGWALADA
APC 15890
PDP 10981
LP 19694
REGISTERED VOTERS 186794
ACCREDITED VOTERS 53310
ABAJI
APC 10370
PDP 6888
LP 2874
REGISTERED VOTERS 67401
ACCREDITED VOTERS 21305
AMAC
APC 29596
LP 170392
PDP 26407
REGISTERED VOTERS 768224
ACCREDITED VOTERS 241722
TheNewsGuru.co (TNG) reports that Obi is a Nigerian businessman and politician who served as governor of Anambra from March to November 2006, February to May 2007, and June 2007 to March 2014.
In May 2022, he became the Labour Party nominee for President of Nigeria in the 2023 presidential election, after defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party.
Born in Onitsha in 1961, Obi graduated from the University of Nigeria in 1984. Afterwards he entered business and banking, eventually holding several executive positions at banks.
Obi ran for governor in 2003 as a member of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, but Chris Ngige was declared winner of the election. In 2006, the election of Chris Ngige was nullified and Obi was declared winner of the 2003 election, and he assumed office in March 2006.
He was impeached in November the same year, but his impeachment was overturned and he returned to office in February 2007.
Obi was removed after the 2007 Anambra State gubernatorial election, but the judiciary again intervened by ruling that he should be allowed to complete a full four-year term. In 2010, he was re-elected to a second term.