The result of the elections no doubt opened a new vista in comparison to previous exercises in the country in the past 12 years that saw the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) holding sway at the polls. The party, given the result of the last weekend’s elections declared yesterday across the country, failed to record a landslide victory as it had done in the past.
The elections, which were free and fair going by the reports in various parts of the country, saw the Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT), former President Olusegun Obasanjo losing in his constituency in Ogun Central where his daughter, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, also lost her senatorial seat to the candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Mr. Gbenga Obadara.
In Abeokuta South Federal constituency, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole of the PDP, also lost his seat to the ACN candidate, Mr. Segun Williams.
In Bauchi Federal constituency, Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State lost his constituency to the candidate of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Aliyu Ibrahim Gebi, who won the House of Representatives election.
In Oyo State, former governor and governorship candidate of Accord party, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, equally lost in his Ibadan North ward 10 to ACN.
Despite relocating to his Camp Road Ward in Kaduna for the elections, Vice-President Namadi Sambo lost the ward to the CPC in both senatorial and House of Representatives elections.
Also in Borno State, Governor Ali Modu Sheriff of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) lost in his Bornu Central senatorial district to PDP.
The ANPP presidential candidate and Governor of Kano State, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, was defeated in his Government House polling centre (protocol) by the CPC. He also lost in his Giginyu Ward to the same party.
In Niger State, Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu was roundly defeated at his Chachanga Federal constituency by the CPC which has its candidate in Ibrahim Musa.
Unlike the trend in previous elections where the PDP would have claimed almost 100 per cent of the election victory, the table has eventually turned in the 2011 National Assembly elections, an indication that the average Nigerian electorate is desirous of change and willing to express that at the polls.
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