Today is April 15th, just a day after the elections in Nigeria. I've been sitting in front of the TV since 5pm, getting details of yesterday's elections.
As of 7:30pm, the time of this posting, only 15 out of 36 states have announced winners of the elections.
Here are the winners as announced by INEC and not Newspapers or TV Stations.
Abia State - PPA - Theodore Orji - 265, 289 votes
Akwa-Ibom - PDP- Goodwill Akpabio - 29, 836
Bayelsa - PDP - Timipre Sylva - 776, 715
Borno - ANPP - Ali Modu Sheriff
Delta - PDP - Emmanuel Uduaghan
Ebonyi - PDP - Martin Elechi - 506, 444
Ekiti - PDP - Segun Oni
Gombe - PDP - Danjuma Goje
Katsina - PDP - Ibrahim Shema
Imo - Result cancelled
Lagos - AC - Babatunde Fashola - 828, 484
Ogun- PDP - Gbenga Daniel - 426, 132
Osun - PDP - Olagunsoye Oyinlola - 426, 669
Oyo - PDP - Alao Akala - 367, 972
Rivers - PDP - Celestine Omehia - 1, 853, 217
That's all the results there is so far.
Other election trivia...
Senate President, Ken Nnamani, was not able to vote due to the abrupt of the polling in Enugu State.
Inec offices were raised down during yesterday's elections
Eight ballot boxes were snatched by hoodlums in Ogun State.
The AC Governorship candidate of Adamawa was disqualified 24 hours before elections without notice to the candidate. he's headed to the courts.
Failed Lagos state Gubernatorial candidates of PDP, Labour Party, DPA,PPA are asking for the cancellation of Lagos results.
Imo State result was cancelled due to irregularities
New elections scheduled to hold April 28th, 2007.
Ok...that's it for now people. By tommorrow I'm sure we would get results of the remaining states.
I'm not happy about some people winning this election...but what can we do?
For some reason I don't think there was much rigging...or maybe there was, I really don't know. I just hope our new leaders improve the life of the average Nigerian.
Let me know what you think of Yesterday's election and the results.
