Jubilation in Delta as INEC Declares PDP’s Okowa Winner
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa, has been declared the winner of the last Saturday’s Delta State governorship election, as he polled a total of 724,680 votes to defeat his Labour Party Peoples (LP) counterpart, Chief Great Ogboru who scored 130,028 votes.
The results which was announced at the INEC office in Asaba, by the State Returning Officer, Professor Bio Nyanayo, in the early hours of Monday after the initial delays in turning up of election results from the 25 local government areas, also saw the All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor scoring 67,825 votes to come third in the election.
The victory of PDP in the state was received with wide jubilation in Asaba, the state capital and across the state as supporters of the PDP trooped out enmasse to celebrate the victory.
Okowa cruised home to victory in the election when he clinched 21 local government areas, out of the 25 local government areas in the state while Ogboru won only four council areas in the state. The APC candidate O’tega Emerhor did not win in any of the local government area.
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