Plateau Governorship: APC, PDP in close race after 13 of 17 LGs

The ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), are in a close race for the governorship seat in Plateau State based on the results from 13 local government areas.

Plateau has 17 local government areas but only the results of 13 had been announced at the INEC state collation centre in Jos as of Sunday night.

From the results presented by the returning officers of the 13 LGAs, the candidate of the PDP, Caleb Mutfuwang, won in seven with 318,228 votes while that of the APC, Nentawe Yilwada, won in six with 317,148 votes

The local government areas whose results have yet to arrive at the INEC collation centre are Jos North, Jos South, Quan Pan and Bokkos.

Idris Amali, the vice-chancellor of the Federal University Lafiya and collation officer for the governorship election, adjourned till Monday to complete the collation and announcement of results.

The results of the 13 LGAs are as follows: