GOV. OKOWA RE-ELECTED IN DELTA
Joseph Omoniyi
People’s Democratic Party, PDP’s candidate and Delta incumbent governor, Ifeanyi Okowa has been re-elected in the state’s governorship election.
Professor Seth Acrajaja of the Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa state, who served as the Returning Officer declared the results at the INEC office in Asaba
Governor Okowa won 23 Local Government Areas, polling 925, 274 votes to defeat the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Great Ogboru who emerged second with 215,938 votes.
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