Kwara State’s Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has been reelected for another four-year term. In order to beat his two closest rivals, Abdullah Yahman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who received 155,490 votes, and Hakeem Lawal of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), who received 18,922 votes, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate polled 273,424 votes.
On Saturday, elections for governor were conducted in 28 of Nigeria’s 36 states. A court case compelled INEC to move the governorship and state assembly polls forward, which resulted in them taking place a week later than originally planned.
Anambra, Bayelsa, Edo, Ekiti, Imo, Kogi, Osun, and Ondo are eight of the 36 states that have “off-season” governorship elections because of legal disputes and judicial rulings.
The 28 states that held governorship elections on March 18 are: Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Gombe, Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe, and Zamfara.
Of the 28 states, 11 of the current governors, including AbdulRazaq, ran for reelection, while 17 outgoing governors, who were ushered in on May 29, 2015, are nearing the end of their constitutionally mandated two terms of eight years.