Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has defeated President Muhammadu Buhari, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in six out of the eight local governments’ areas of the state.
Atiku polled 197,933 across the eight local governments to beat Buhari who polled 118,821 to clinch the second place.
While Atiku won in Sagbama, Ogbia, Brass, Ekeremor, Yenagoa and Kolokuma/ Opokuma local government areas, Buhari won in Nembe and Southern Ijaw local government areas.
The Returning Officer for the presidential election, Prof Zana Akpagbo, gave the breakdown as follows: In Ekeremor LGA, PDP scored 21, 857 to defeat APC who got 9, 097. In Kolokuma/Opokuma LGA, PDP polled 16, 040 to defeat APC, that got 3, 938 votes while in Yenagoa LGA, PDP got 37,676 votes defeating APC with 7, 483. In Brass, PDP polled 15,936, while APC scored 5,913 and in Sagbama, PDP had 30,122 votes to defeat the APC with 7,949 votes and in Ogbia PDP polled 27,506 against Buhari who polled 5003.
He also announced that APC polled 31, 811 votes to defeat PDP, who polled 7, 167 votes in Nembe LGA. In Southern-Ijaw, APC also polled 47, 627 as against 41, 629 scored by the PDP in the area.