Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, floored the All Progressives Congress, APC, in last Saturday’s governorship election with a major landslide despite the low voters turnout that marred the votes.
The PDP governorship candidate, who is the incumbent Rt. Hon Ifeanyi Uguanyi polled 449,935 as against APC’s candidate that polled 10,423, despite the voter apathy displayed during the election.
Total number of forty-two (42) Political Parties participated in the election that cut across the seventeen (17) Local Government Areas of the state.
The scores obtain by the parties are: AAC – 260
SCD – 62
ADC – 581
ADP – 175
AGA – 76
ANDP – 33
ANP – 57
APN – 554
APC – 10,423
APGA – 2547
APP – 26
ASD – 22.
Others are;
CDC – 30
CAP – 6
DPC – 21
FRESH – 156
GDPN – 30
GPN – 59
ID – 19
JNPP – 36
KP – 93
LP – 61
MMN – 10
MPN – 54
NRDP – 7
NAC – 7
NCP – 10
NDCP – 48
NIP – 53
NMPP – 83
NRM – 145
NUP – 463.
While the scores for the rest are; PDP – 449,935, PPC – 271, PPN – 174, RPNP – 75, SDP – 1476, SNP – 53, UDP – 1648, UPP – 854 and ZLP – 67.
The total number of registered voters 1,944,803
Total number of accredited voters 478,241
Total valid votes 470,927
Rejected votes 7,314
Total votes cast 478,241.
The Returning Officer, Prof. Joseph Ahaneku, Vice Chancellor Nnamdi Azikwe University Awka declared the results
