Delta Governor Ifeanyi Okowa Wins Re-election

Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa has won his re-election bid as governor of the state for a second term.

He was declared winner of the March 9 governorship election in the state today, by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

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.

Ogboru won in two Local Government Areas in the state.

Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa was inaugurated as Governor on 29 May 2015 after winning the state elections conducted in April 2015. Before his Governorship, he was elected Senator for Delta North, in Delta State in the April 2011 general elections. He ran on the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) platform. He is an Ika from Owa-Alero in Delta State, Nigeria. He is also the first person from Anioma to clinch the governorship position of Delta State.

Great Ovedje Ogboru on the other hand is a Nigerian businessman and politician who was the gubernatorial aspirant for Alliance of Democracy, Democratic Peoples’ Party and Labour Party in the 2003, 2007 and 2015 Delta State governorship elections.