Presidential Elections Result coming

The results of the presidential election in 11 out of the 27 local government areas in Imo State collated on Sunday in Owerri, capital of the state, show that President Goodluck Jonathan, who is the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, is clearly leading his main opponent, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Major-Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). The collated results were from Ideato North, Isiala- Mbaino, Isu, Obowo, Ohaji-Egbema,. Okigwe, Owerri Municipal, Owerri West, Nwangene, Oru East and Ideato South LGAs. Jonathan polled a total of 210,022 votes to grab the lead ahead of Buhari, who had 50,977 votes. The latter won in Ideato South, Governor Rochas Okorocha’s home LGA, by 12, 128 votes as against Jonathan’s 6,406 votes. In Edo, As the collation of results of the presidential election continues, the Peoples Democratic Party has won the poll in seven Local Government Areas in Edo State. Edo has 18 LGs. At the INEC office in Benin where the collation of results continued into the early hours of Monday, at Igueben the PDP led with about 6,854 votes while the All Peoples Congress followed with 5,692 votes. In Esan Central, PDP polled 12,003 votes while the APC polled 7,688 votes while in Etsako Central, PDP led with 10,365 votes while APC won 8,152 votes. At Esan North East, PDP led with 19,440 votes while APC polled 6,151 votes. At Etsako East, the PDP polled 13,071 votes while the APC polled 9,788. At Esan West, the PDP polled 19,600 votes while the APC polled 9,578 votes. At Ikpobaokha, PDP polled 31,373 votes while the APC garnered 18,527 votes while at Owan East, the PDP polled 12,121 votes. The APC polled 12,925 votes. Present at the collation were the agents of all the political parties, which took part in the election, as well as the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mike Igini, and State Collation Officer, Prof. Falade Orunwense. who is also the Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin. In Plateau, President Goodluck Jonathan’s Peoples Democratic Party is coasting to victory in Plateau state following results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Of the 17 local government areas in Plateau, Jonathan has won in the nine councils, beating the All Progressives Congress candidate by 277,811 to 58,502 votes.