Bassey Otu of APC wins Cross River governorship election
Oru Leonard
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State, Senator Bassey Otu, has been declared the governor-elect having scored the highest number of votes in the 18 March election.
The returning officer for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state, Professor Teddy Charles, disclosed that Senator Otu polled 258,619 votes to defeat the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sandy Onor, who scored 179,636 votes.
Otu won in 15 of the 18 local government areas of the state, according to the results were declared by INEC in Calabar.
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