Curled from CrossRiverWatch.
The candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Sen. Jarigbe Agom has been declared winner of the Saturday’s senatorial elections in northern Cross River State.
He was declared winner moments ago by the returning officer, Dr. Emmanuel Emanghe after polling 76,145 votes to beat his closest rival and incumbent Governor, Sen. Benedict Ayade of the All Progressives Congress who scored 56,595 votes.
The difference between the PDP and APC is 19,550 votes.
Sen. Agom polled over 51 percent of the 146,417 votes cast across the five Local Government Areas of Bekwara, Obanliku, Obudu, Ogoja, and Yala.
A total of 148,845 out of the 504,987 registered voters were accredited for the keenly contested polls held across 51 wards of the five Local Government Areas.
The Labor Party candidate polled 6,188 while that of the People Redemption Party clinched 244. Also, the candidate of the African Democratic Congress clinched 650 while that of the New Nigerian People’s Party garnered 384. Their counterpart in the Allied People’s Movement polled 338 votes.
Furthermore, the Action Alliance candidate clinched 91 votes with the Social Democratic Party scoring 58 while the Young Progressives Party candidate polled the least votes, 105.
