into its kitty most of the 29 governorship seats contested
at the weekend.
The huge victory has catapulted the party to the enviable position of the dominant party in Nigeria. With the results announced at press time, the APC won in
19 states and was leading in Plateau and Kebbi states
while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won in Akwa
Ibom, Ebonyi, Gombe and Enugu and was coasting home
to victory in Rivers, Delta and Taraba.
This came as the PDP made in-road to the Lagos State
House of Assembly winning six seats for the first time as APC's Mr Akinwunmi Ambode won a tightly contested
governorship election beating PDP's Jimi Agbaje.
Meanwhile, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, yesterday, broke the
re-election jinx, which has dogged Oyo State politics since 1983 by winning the governorship polls after fencing off Senator Rasheed Ladoja of the Accord Party;
Christopher Alao Akala of the Labour Party and Teslim
Folarin of the PDP among others.
States where the APC won the governorship are Kaduna,
Sokoto, Niger, Borno, Adamawa, Lagos, Kwara, Katsina,
Bauchi, Kano, Yobe, Zamfara, Oyo, Ogun, Benue, Imo, Nasarawa, Jigawa and Benue.