Eight new governors have been elected in Nigeria’s gubernatorial polls while 12 retained their seats even as the ruling party PDP has been swept out of the southwest region, including the nation’s economic capital Lagos.
The governor of the country’s economic capital of Lagos, Babatunde Fashola of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) was re-elected even as his party won two southwestern states of Ogun and Oyo earlier controlled by the PDP. The ACN has its stronghold in the southwest.
Nonetheless, the ruling party was able to reclaim Kano, a very populous state in the north earlier controlled by opposition, All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and hold on to southeastern and all the Niger Delta states announced so far.
2 Comments on Eight new governors elected in Nigeria
dammy
13/05/2011 at 8:13 pm
hello
please can u list all the new elected Nigeria governor
pls i need it very urgent
gscurrentaffairs
13/05/2011 at 10:39 pm
The new governors are Umaru Tanko Al-Makura (Nasarawa),
Rabiu Kwakwanso (Kano) who was governor of the state between 1999 and 2003,
Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo), AbdulFatah Ahmed (Kwara), Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Kashim Shettima (Borno), Theodore Orji (Abia) and Ibrahim Dankwambo (Gombe).