Preliminary results from the rerun election for the chairmanship and councillorship seats of Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State indicate that newly-registered All Progressives Party is coasting home to victory.
Officially counted results at the ward level, awaiting final ratification at the local government level, have it that the APC defeated its closets rival and ruling party in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party, in 11 wards out of the 12 wards that make up the local government area.
The results showed that the PDP won in only Ogbodun Ward by a slim margin of 383 votes to APC’s 277.
In other wards in the local government, the APC won by very wide margins.
For instance in Ojomu North, the APC had 1,091 votes while PDP polled 353 votes.
Based on the final votes tally, the APC scored 11,526 votes to PDP’s 4,664, thus resulting in the newly-registered party emerging victorious in the chairmanship election.
Official announcement of the results at the local government area collation centre was still being awaited as at press time.
Below are the full results by wards:
Balogun Ward APC 706, PP 279
Shawo S – W Ward APC 1176, PDP 336
Shawo – C Ward APC 1132, PDP 435
Shawo S – E Ward APC 1054, PDP 370
Eesa A Ward APC 639, PDP 363
Eesa B Ward APC 644, PDP 381
Eesa C Ward APC 982, PDP 404
Ojomu N – W Ward APC 1091, PDP 353
Ojomu C 1 Ward APC 253, PDP 133
Ojomu C 2 Ward APC 675, PDP 290
Ojomu S – E Ward APC 1374, PDP 427
Ogbodun Ward APC 277, PDP 383
Chairmanship Election result: APC 11,526, PDP 4664.
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