Kwara PDP leaders lose in their wards

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Kwara State has announced results of only two local government areas out of 16 local government areas in the state.

According to the spokesman for the INEC in the state, Jacob Ayanda, only results from Isin and Oke-Ero local government areas had arrived at the commission’s headquarters as of 3.00 p.m. on Sunday, where the All Progressives Congress (APC) lost Oke Ero to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but won in Isin.

However, results collated from polling centres across the state indicated that APC was in clear lead, with most leaders of the PDP in the state losing their polling units in the election.

According to the collation, the PDP had won only in Oke-Ero Local Government Area, while the race for Ekiti, home council of the PDP governorship candidate, Senator Simon Ajibola, was still close to call.

Among those who lost were Minister of National Planning, Dr Suleiman Abubakar; Kwara Central senatorial candidate, Alhaji AbdulRazak AbdulRahaman; business mogul and close associate of First Lady, Patience Jonathan, Hajia Bola Shagaya and her son, Sherrif, who contested the House of Representatives seat for Ilorin West and Asa Federal constituency.

According to the collation, the minister lost to the APC in his polling unit, with the PDP scoring 27 votes against 377 for the APC in the presidential slot, while PDP again scored only 29 votes against 386 for the APC for the Senate and 35 votes against 385 for the House of Representatives.

On his part, the PDP polled 159 against 367 for APC in the presidential slot in AbdulRazaq unit, 265 against 278 for the Senate and 313 against 227 for the House of Representatives.

Alhaja Shagaya also lost to the APC in her Ojuekun Sarunmi 02, where APC polled 149 against 88 for the House of Representatives and 140 against 90 for the Senate.

However, the PDP scored 143 votes against 83 for the APC in the presidential race at the polling unit.