Ogun State Governorship Election Result

Final Update : Senator Ibikunle Amosun of of the Action Congressof Nigeria (ACN) has been officially declared winner of Ogun State Governorship election and there by is now the Governor Elect.
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Senator Ibikunle Amosun projected to win Ogun State governorship race as early results from polling units in Ogun Central, East and West show the ACN in wide lead.

The results collated so far is putting Sen. Ibikunle Amosun, the governorship candidate of the Action Congressof Nigeria above any other contestants. Though, the Independent National Electoral CommissionINEC officials have not given official announcement of the results, those ones declared so far across the three Senatorial Districts were in favour of ACN across the line.

OBJ loses ward for the second time
.. As A C N swing into early lead
For second time, the Action Congress of Nigeria swept off former President Olusegun Obasanjo as it scored 179 votes against 55 votes polled by the PDP at Obasanjo’s African Church Grammar School ward Ita-Eko Ibara Abeokuta, just as it recorded another victory in Ago-Oba ward where former Governor of the state Chief Olusegun Osoba cast his vote. Ogun State Action Congress of Nigeria (A C N ) was in early lead following its overwhelming victory recorded in no fewer than twelve local Governmentsout of twenty in the state as at the time of filing this report. A C N was said to be in a comfortable lead across the state as it has won in Ogun Central which has six local governmentsand most local governments in Ogun East which has nine while it was in the lead at Ogun West except in Ilaro which is part of the Ogun West where Adetunji Olurin, the governorship candidate of the PDP has a strong hold.

In Ogun ACN house of Assembly got 10 seats

Senator Ibikunle Amosun of the ACN polls 377, 487 votes to defeat closest rival Chief Adetunji Olurin of the PDP who polled 188, 698 votes and is therefore returned elected for a tenure of 4 years. This therefore sees ACN wrestling away Ogun state from the hold of the PDP after many years of dominance spanning 12 years. The south west is effectively an ACN stronghold with dis victory.