Governorship and House of
Assembly elections,
perceived as the most crucial
to the electorate comes up
in 72 hours.
However, elections would
not hold in 12 states of the
federation and these include
Kogi, Bayelsa, Adamawa,
Cross River and Sokoto
States where the Court of
Appeal in Abuja ruled on
the one_year tenure
extension for their
governors .
The tenure for the Kogi
State governor expires April
5, 2012 while that of Sokoto
expires May 28, 2012.
The tenure for Adamawa
expires April 30, 2012 and
that of Cross River ends
August 28, 2012;
Bayelsa Governor’s tenure
would also expire May 29,
2012. Other states where
there will be no
governorship election today
are Anambra State where its
governor Peter Obi, of All
Progressive Grand Alliance
assumed office in 2010;
Osun State where Rauf
Aregbesola of ACN took
office in 2010; Edo State
where Adams Oshiomhole of
ACN came on board in 2008;
Ekiti State where Kayode
Fayemi of ACN took office in
2010 Ondo State where
Olusegun Mimiko of LP was
sworn in 2009 and Kaduna
and Bauchi where INEC
rescheduled the elections on
account of the violence that
trailed the outcome of the
last week’s presidential
election.
List of current state
governors
The current party affiliation
of the 36 state governors is:
* 28 People’s Democratic
Party (PDP)
* 3 All Nigeria People’s Party
(ANPP)
* 3 Action Congress
(ACN)
* 1 All Progressives Grand
Alliance (APGA)
* 1 Labour Party
(LP)
Current Governors and their
parties
Abia State— Theodore Orji
— PDP
Adamawa State — Murtala
Nyako — PDP
Akwa Ibom State — Godswill
Akpabio — PDP
Anambra State — Peter Obi
— APGA
Bauchi State — Isa Yuguda
— PDP
Bayelsa State — Timipre
Sylva — PDP
Benue State — Gabriel
Suswam — PDP
Borno State — Ali Modu
Sheriff — ANPP
Cross River State — Liyel
Imoke — PDP
Delta State — Emmanuel
Uduaghan — PDP
Ebonyi State — Martin Elechi
— PDP
Edo State — Adams
Oshiomhole —
ACN
Ekiti State — Kayode
Fayemi — ACN
Enugu State — Sullivan
Chime — PDP
Gombe State — Mohammed
Danjuma Goje — PDP
Imo State — Ikedi Ohakim
— PDP
Jigawa State — Sule Lamido
— PDP
Kaduna State — Patrick
Ibrahim Yakowa —
PDP
Kano State — Ibrahim
Shekarau —
ANPP
Katsina State — Ibrahim
Shema — PDP
Kebbi State — Usman Saidu
Nasamu Dakingari — PDP
Kogi State — Ibrahim Idris
— PDP
Kwara State — Bukola
Saraki — PDP
Lagos State — Babatunde
Fashola — ACN
Nasarawa State — Aliyu
Doma — PDP
Niger State — Mu’azu
Babangida Aliyu —
PDP
Ogun State — Gbenga
Daniel — PDP
Ondo State — Olusegun
Mimiko — LP
Osun — Rauf
Aregbesola —
ACN
Oyo State — Christopher
Alao-Akala — PDP
Plateau State — Jonah Jang
— PDP
Rivers State — Rotimi
Amaechi — PDP
Sokoto State — Aliyu
Wamakko —
PDP
Taraba State — Danbaba
Suntai — PDP
Yobe State — Ibrahim
Geidam — ANPP
Zamfara State — Mahmud
Shinkafi — PDP
2nd Term Governors
Some governors amongst
the 36 governors of the
federation are not eligible to
contest elections on Tuesday
because they will be
concluding their second term
in office on May 29, 2011
and therefore are no longer
eligible to contest.
Ali Modu Sheriff of Borno
State, (ANPP)
Bukola Saraki of Kwara
state, (PDP)
Gbenga Daniel of Ogun,
(PDP)
Ibrahim Idris of Kogi State,
(PDP)
Ibrahim Shekarau of Kano
State, (ANPP)
Mohammed Danjuma Goje
of Gombe State (PDP)
Governors seeking second
term in office
Abia State— Theodore Orji,
— PDP
Akwa Ibom State —
Godswill Akpabio —
PDP
Bauchi State — Isa Yuguda
— PDP
Benue State — Gabriel
Suswam — PDP
Delta State — Emmanuel
Uduaghan — PDP
Ebonyi State — Martin
Elechi — PDP
Enugu State — Sullivan
Chime — PDP
Imo State — Ikedi Ohakim
— PDP
Jigawa State — Sule Lamido
— PDP
Kaduna State — Patrick
Ibrahim Yakowa —
PDP
Katsina State — Ibrahim
Shema — PDP
Kebbi State — Usman Saidu
Nasamu Dakingari — PDP
Lagos State — Babatunde
Fashola — ACN
Nasarawa State — Aliyu
Doma — PDP
Niger State — Mu’azu
Babangida Aliyu —
PDP
Oyo State — Christopher
Alao_Akala — PDP
Plateau State — Jonah Jang
— PDP
Rivers State — Rotimi
Amaechi — PDP
Taraba State — Danbaba
Suntai — PDP
Yobe State — Ibrahim
Geidam — ANPP
Zamfara State — Mahmud
Shinkafi — PDP
What the constitution says
on election of governor
Election of a Governor
Section 178: -(1)“An election
to the office of Governor of
a state shall be held on a
date to be appointed by the
Independent National
Electoral Commission.
(2) An election to the office
of Governor of a State shall
be held on a date not earlier
than sixty days and not later
than thirty days before the
expiration of the term of
office of the last holder.”
Section 179 (1): “A candidate
for an election to the office
of Governor of a State shall
be deemed to have been
duly elected to such office
where being the only
candidate after the close
nominated for the election.
Sub section (a) “he has a
majority of YES votes over
NO votes cast at the
election; and (b) he has not
less than one-quarter of the
votes cast at the election in
each of at least two-thirds of
all the local government
areas in the State.”
But where the only
candidate fails to be elected
in accordance with this
subsection, then there shall
be fresh nominations.
Subsection (2) “A candidate
for an election to