In Kano State, Nigeria's second biggest electoral prize after the southern port city of Lagos, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) lost 13 of its 23 lower house seats to the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP), it said.
A statement released by Ibrahim Biu, secretary of the Independent National Electoral Commission's mission in Kano, said that two of Kano's three PDP senators had also fallen.
Before the election Kano, home to more than four million registered voters, was a fief of Obasanjo's ruling party with only one ANPP deputy, and its PDP governor Rabiu Kwankwaso is one of his staunchest supporters.
Next Saturday Obasanjo and Kwankwaso will face re-election battles of their own, and their confidence of winning the state will have been shaken by the surprise result, observers said.
Earlier results showed Obasanjo making headway against a second opposition party, the Alliance for Democracy, in its southwest stronghold - Sapa-AFP
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