Breaking: Obi Defeats Atiku And Tinubu In Cross River

Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate, won easily in Cross River State.

Obi defeated fellow candidates from the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, in the victory, despite being widely regarded as the underdog in the race.

The final results, which were made public early on Tuesday morning at the presidential election collation center in Cross River, showed that Obi received 179,917 votes, surpassing Tinubu’s 130,520, Atiku’s 95,425, and Kwankwaso’s 1,644 votes.

Obi has now won four states, including victories in Nasarawa, Enugu, and Lagos.

The victory for the former governor of Anambra State in the Cross River is noteworthy for a variety of reasons.

For one, Cross River is historically a PDP state, having seen three consecutive two-term governors emerging from the party since 1999, including the incumbent Governor Ben Ayade when he was elected in 2015 and re-elected in 2019.

However, Ayade’s defection to the APC in 2021 earned the ruling party a crucial South-South state after losing Edo State to the PDP and a recently defected Governor Godwin Obaseki, who won the state’s lone 2020 governorship poll.

In Cross River, the presidential poll recorded 1,691,642 registered voters.

There were 416,968 valid votes, while 24,608 were rejected, adding up to 441,576 total votes.