After 16 years of majority power in Nigeria’s two houses of parliament, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has finally lost the Senate to the now ruling party-elect, the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The APC secured 60 seats out of 109, according to PREMIUM TIMES’ tally, based on results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
At Saturday’s National Assembly elections, the PDP swept through the South East, taking all 15 senatorial seats, and all but two of South South’s 18 seats.
If the PDP wins the Edo State’s South Senatorial district, which is yet undecided, the party will take 17 seats in the South South.
But the two big wins are a far cry from the party’s bleak national performance in the Senate.
