All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Kwara, Mr. Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, has been declared winner in the governorship election held on Saturday just as his party cleared all the 24 state house of assembly seats.
Abdulrazaq polled 331,546 votes to emerge as the winner while his closest challenger Mr. Abdulrazaq Atunwa of the Peoples Democratic Party counterpart, PDP, polled 114,754 votes to emerge as the runner-up in the election..
From the results announced, the APC beat the PDP in all the local government areas.
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Also from the to the results of the state assembly elections read by Garba Madami, Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kwara State, APC won all the 24 seats contested in the state House of Assembly, while the PDP, which was the ruling party in the state, failed to win any.
Meanwhile, representatives of the PDP boycotted the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Ilorin, where the results were being announced.