After 12 years in charge of the center and most states, the People's Democratic Party faced the judgement of voters nationwide yesterday as millions of Nigerians flocked to the polls to deliver a verdict on the party that fancies itself as Africa's largest. From the farthest corners of the land and most of its metropolitan areas, at least 75 percent of registered voters - according to election officials - participated in this most sacred of democracy's rituals. For the ruling party, the initial omen was not good. By Saturday evening, results had started trickling in, portending a tricky time for the ruling party. The Congress for Progressive Change had a strong showing in the north while the Action Congress of Nigeria and All Progressive Grand Alliance were leading in parts of the southwest and the southeast.
The CPC appeared on course to win the Federal Capital Territory as well. There were also indications that the speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, and the senator daughter of the former president, Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, may have lost their reelection bids to the opposition ACN in Ogun State. It was unclear whether the senate president, David Mark, had been able to keep his seat. In Kwara, the ACN was leading in the Kwara Central senatorial district, dampening the ambition of the incumbent governor and chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, Bukola Saraki. Osun State's Iyiola Omisore lost his senatorial seat while the former governor of Osun State, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, also lost his senatorial bid.
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