The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has so far announced 26 candidates as governors-elect from  the March 18 governorship election


The latest result, that of  Alex Otti of the Labour Party was declared Wednesday by INEC for the governorship election held in Abia state.



Peter Mbah of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) also emerged as the winner of the governorship election in Enugu State


Thus 26 of the 28 governorship elections held have been announced. That of  Kebbi and Adamawa were declared inconclusive


From the results announced by the electoral umpire, 
a breakdown of the results show the All  Progressives Congress (APC) as having won in 15 States, PDP in 9 State and Labour Party in  one State, while the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) won Kano state.


APC had seven Governors re-elected including Inuwa Yahaya (Gombe); Mai Mala Muni (Yobe); Abdullahi Sule (Nasarawa); Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos);  Dapo Abiodun (Ogun); AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq (Kwara), and Babagana Zulum (Borno).

The ruling party also secured wins for eight new candidates: Uba Sani (Kaduna);  Bassey Otu (Cross River); Mohammed Bago (Niger);  Umar Namadi (Jigawa); Ahmed Aliyu (Sokoto); Dikko Radda (Katsina); Hyacinth Alia (Benue);  and Francis Nwifuru (Ebonyi).

Two PDP Governors – Seyi Makinde (Oyo) and Bala Mohammed (Bauchi) – secured re-election.

Seven first-term governors were elected on the platform of the PDP including Kefas Agbu (Taraba); Caleb Mutfwang (Plateau); Peter Mbah (Enugu), Umo Eno (Akwa Ibom), Siminialayi Fubara (Rivers) and Sheriff Oborevwori (Delta).


PDP’s Dauda Lawal unseated Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, while Abba Kabir of the NNPP unseated the APC in Kano State.