By LEKE ADESERI, South West Regional Editor

LAGOS—RESULTS of Tuesday’s governorship elections in three South West states of Lagos, Oyo, and Ogun stopped the ambition of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, to control any state in the region.

The big wins of the day for the rival Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, came from Ogun and Oyo  States, which had been under PDP’s control in the last four years.

The development was the last straw that broke PDP’s back after they lost Ekiti and Osun states to the ACN through judicial pronouncements.

Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala lost to the ACN’s candidate, Senator Isiaka Abiola Ajimobi, while Senator Ibikunle Amosun will on May 29 take over the governorship of Ogun State from Otunba Gbenga Daniel who has spent the mandatory two terms.

Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola is the only governor in the region that was re-elected. He defeated his PDP rival with a margin in excess of one million votes.

Declaring the result, the INEC governorship returning officer for Lagos State, Professor Akinbolawa Akinterinwa, announced that Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola polled 1,509,113 votes while the PDP governorship candidate, Dr. Ade Dosunmu  came second with 300,450 votes and Mr. Odulana Olurotimi of the Labour Party, LP, polled 10, 221 to come third in the contest.

In Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, the ACN gubernatorial candidate became the governor-elect after polling 377,487 votes to emerge winner.

Gen. Adetunji Olurin (rtd), the PDP governorship candidate, came second with 188,698 votes, his Peoples Party of Nigeria, PPN, counterpart, Mr. Gboyega Isiaka, scored 137,051 votes to place third.

ACN’s winning streak continued to the various Houses of Assembly except in Ondo State where the ruling Labour Party had an impressive showing.

INEC in Osun State, for instance, declared ACN candidates as winners of the House of Assembly election in the 26 constituencies, while the results from Ekiti showed that ACN candidates won all the three re-scheduled senatorial districts seats in the state.

The party equally won the six seats in the Federal constituencies and 24 of the 26 members of the state House of Assembly, while PDP won in the remaining two constituencies.

HOW THE PARTIES STAND

S/N    State            Governor            Party        House of Assembly

1    Sokoto            No election            PDP            PDP clears 30 seats
2    Lagos                Babatunde Fashola        ACN            ACN clears 40 seats; 3 Reps
3    Osun                No election            ACN            ACN sweeps 26 seats
4     Ogun                Ibikunle Amosun        ACN
5    Jigawa            Sule Lamido            PDP
6    Nasarawa            Tanko Al-Makura        CPC            PDP-14, CPC-2, LP-1, 7                                                         awaited
7    Enugu            Sullivan Chime        PDP            PDP clears 24 seats
8    Rivers        Rotimi Amaechi    PDP
9    Cross River    No election        PDP        PDP-23, Awaited -2; 2 Senate seats
10    Kwara        Abdulfatai Ahmed    PDP
11    Oyo        Abiola Ajimobi    ACN        ACN-18; PDP-11; Accord-4
12    Yobe        Ibrahim Gaidam    ANPP
13    Akwa Ibom    Godswill Akpabio    PDP
14    Abia        Theodore Orji    PDP        PDP rakes 24 seats, 2 rescheduled                                         Reps seats
15    Kebbi        Saidu Dakingari    PDP        PDP -23, CPC-1
16    Kano        Rabiu Kwakwanso    PDP
17    Ondo        No election        LP        LP-23, PDP-1, Awaited-2
18    Ebonyi    Martins Elechi    PDP
19    Adamawa    No election        PDP        PDP-20, ACN-4, CPC-1
20    Benue        Gabriel Suswam    PDP
21    Katsina    Ibrahim Shema    PDP
22    Gombe    Ibrahim Dankwambo PDP
23    Taraba        Danladi Baido    PDP
24    Niger        Babangida Aliyu    PDP
25    Ekiti        No election        ACN         – 24 seats, LP-1, PDP1; ACN clears                                         NASS seat
26    Delta        Results postponed
27    Imo        Inconclusive