The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Biodun Oyebanji has emerged victorious in the Ekiti state gubernatorial election.
He was declared winner of the governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC). Oyebanji polled a total of 187,057 votes to defeat his two closest challengers, Segun Oni of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Bisi Kolawole of the People’s Democratic Party.
Oni who emerged second in the election polled a total votes of 82,211, while the Kolawole of the PDP came third with 67,457 votes.
The Returning Officer for the election, Prof Kayode Adebowale, who is the Vice Chancellor, the University of Ibadan, announced the results.
“Oyebanji, having scored the highest number of votes is hereby declared the winner and returned elected as the governor-elect of Ekiti State,” Adebowale declared.
Oyebanji is now set to replace incumbent Kayode Fayemi in October.
Prior to the election, INEC had revealed that Ekiti state has 988,923 registered voters. Out the total number of registered voters only 749,065 voters had collected their Permanent Voters Cards (PVC) as of Monday.
However, only 363,438 voters were accredited. The total valid votes in the election were 351,865, void votes, 8,888 and total votes cast, 360,753.
The polls officially opened at around 8:30am (WAT) on Saturday and was expected to close at 2:30 pm (WAT).
Below is the final result:
A: 166 votes
AAC: 409 votes
ADC: 5,597 votes
ADP: 3,495 votes
APC: 187,057 votes
APGA: 376 votes
APM: 290 votes
APP: 1,980 votes
LP: 195 votes
NNPP: 529 votes
NRM:347 votes
PDP: 67,457 votes
PRP: 856 votes
SDP: 82,211 votes
YPP: 618 votes
ZLP: 282 votes
