Claim: A Twitter user as well as other blogs claim that the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) polled 1,125,400 votes in Plateau state.
Full Text: The user Alpha De Great tweeted, “Plateau State Presidential.
APC 150,134
PDP- 450,329
LP- 1,125,400
Plateau state for North Central vote done swallow Ekiti, Ogun and Ondo..”
The tweet which generated over 254,400, over 2000 retweets and comments generated mixed reactions from various supporters.
Verification: As at the time this claim started making the rounds, the total results of votes cast from the entire 17 Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau state have not been fully announced.
As at the time of filing this report, seven more LGAs are still been awaited.
However, of the ten so far announced, PRNigeria reports that the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi has won at least eight out of the ten Local Government Areas declared in Plateau State.
PRNigeria also reports that the presidential candidate of PDP, Atiku Abubakar also won two LGAs in the State and the official results announced are as follows:
Jos South LGA
APC: 15,985
PDP: 13,803
LP: 112,874
Mangu LGA
APC: 22,691
PDP: 27,013
LP: 39,387
Bassa LGA
APC: 16,007
PDP: 11,306
LP: 28,226.
Langtang North LGA,
LP 21, 590
PDP 17, 751
APC 8, 706
In Jos East LGA
LP 6, 386
APC 6, 348
PDP 5, 144
Bokkos LGA
LP 32, 581
APC 10, 858
PDP 8, 569
In Langtang South LGA,
PDP 12, 467
APC 7, 478
LP 6, 045
Barkin Ladi LGA
LP 32,489
APC 12,514
PDP 9,073
Riyom LGA,
Labour Party 15,171
PDP 8,181
APC 6, 936
In Mikang LGA,
PDP 7,211
LP 7,201
APC 5,044
The total number of votes scored by the LP candidate in the 10 of the 17 LGA of Plateau state so far is 301,950 which is greater than the remaining half expected especially since most of the largest LGA’s like Jos North, Jos South, Riyom etc have already been announced.
PRNigeria reports that the total number of registered voters in Plateau is 2,789,528 however, the total number of voters accredited to cast their ballot has yet to be announced.
Conclusion: While the Labour Party is leading in the most of the results so far announced, the total number of his votes is less than half of a million and not 1,125,400 as claimed by a Twitter user as the results have yet to be fully announced.
PRNigeria therefore concludes that the claim is FALSE.
