By Rita Enemuru, Reporting
THE Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has defeated Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Atiku Abukakar of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the presidential race in Cross River State, with a wide margin of 179,917 votes.
During collation of the presidential election results at the State Collation Centre in Calabar, the state Collation Officer, Professor Akpofure Rim-Rukeh, declared the results as obtained from the polling units.
According to the collated results, “the APC scored 130,520 votes, the PDP 95,425 votes, while the Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) scored 1,644 votes.
“Total valid votes were 416,968, while rejected votes are 24,608. The total votes cast is 441, 576.”
However, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Professor Gabriel Yomere, apologized for the late collation of the results, citing the geographical peculiarities of the state for the delay.
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