Senator Bassey Otu of the All Progressives Congress, APC has won the governorship election in Cross River State.
He was declared the winner after he won in 15 Local Government Areas, out of the 18 Local Government Areas in the state.
Announcing the result on Monday at the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC ) Collation Centre in Calabar, the returning officer, Professor Teddy Adies, disclosed that after collating the results from the 18 LGAs APC pulled 258,619 votes.
He said that the People’s Democratic Party, PDP got 179,636 votes while the Labour Party, LP gathered 5,957 votes.
According to him, “The total number of registered voters was 1,766,466, with 466,294 accredited and total valid votes stood at 451,933 as 8,923 was recorded as voided votes. The total vote cast was 460,856.
“11 political parties participated in this election and for the results to get to us here at the state level, it had t pass through the Polling Units, the Ward Collation Centres and the collation centre at the Local Government Levels.
“Otu of the APC after satisfying the requirement of the law has been returned elected,” he added.
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