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INEC declares APC’s Bassey Otu winner of Cross River guber election

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March 20, 2023

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Cross River, Bassey Otu as the winner of the March 18 poll in the State.

According to the results released by INEC’s Returning officer, Prof Teddy Charles, Otu scored a total of 258,619 votes to defeat his closest rival and a serving senator, Sandy Onor of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 179,636.

So far, the results of 18 governorship polls have been announced. The APC takes the lead with 12 states, PDP with five states and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) with one state.

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