As the results of the presidential and National Assembly elections started to trickle into the public domain and the collation centers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) nationwide last night, confidence and excitement began to bubble in the camp of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Early results from polling places in Lagos, Ekiti, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, and Oyo, six South West states, showed that the APC presidential candidate was leading the pack while Peter Obi of the Labour Party dominated in the South East.
The Nation claims that Obi also made some progress in the PDP’s erstwhile strongholds of Delta and Edo as well as Lagos State.
At the Aso Rock Presidential Mansion in Abuja, nine out of the 13 voting units had been won by the Labour Party’s presidential candidate as of yesterday’s press time.
But, his performance in the North, where the APC and the PDP were sharing the popular vote across the region’s three geopolitical zones, was appalling. At the time of publication, the APC was doing well in Yobe and Sokoto State.