By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Gregory Obi, has continued to take more states as he has won the Presidential election conducted in Plateau, Nasarawa and Cross River States at the weekend.
The INEC Collation Officer in Plateau state, Shehu Abdulrahman, announced that the LP candidate scored the highest votes cast in the state to defeat his closest rivals, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic party ( PDP).
According to the Collation Officer, the LP candidate scored 466,272 votes, PDP candidate scored 243,808 votes while the APC candidate scored 307,195 votes.
Plateau thus joins Nasarawa as two states in Northern Nigeria that Obi has won, so far, in the Presidential election.
The results from Nasarawa show Obi polled highest votes of 191,361 and followed closely by Tinubu’s APC – 172,922 while Atiku’s PDP polled 137,093 votes.
In Cross River state, Obi also led with
179,917, followed by Tinubu – 130,520 while Atiku polled Atiku’s 95,425, and Kwankwaso’s 1,644.
