Nigeria, March 19 -- The final collation of results for the Enugu State governorship election has commenced as results from the 17 Local Government Areas (LGAs) began coming in.

The Electoral Officers of each LGA would present the result of their domains to the Resident Electoral Officer at the state collation centre.

This followed the conclusion of voting and counting votes in polling units and wards in all of the 17 LGAs.

Enugu has a total of 1,995,389 eligible voters (who collected their Permanent Voter Cards PVCs). However, only 482,990 participated in the presidential election two weeks ago.

A total of 17 candidates are seeking to succeed Ifeanyi Ugwanyi whose eight year tenure ends 29 May.

The major candidates in the elections ...