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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the November 26, 2016 governorship election in Ondo State. According to Prof. Ganiyu Ambali, INEC Returning Officer, Mr. Akeredolu defeated two major opponents, Eyitayo Jegede of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and Olusola Oke of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), to clinch victory. INEC disclosed during the collation of results from 18 local government areas in the state that the victorious Mr. Akeredolu scored 244, 842 votes in the election while Mr. Oke won 126, 889 votes and Mr. Jegede 150,380 votes. Mr. Akeredolu, a lawyer by profession, who led overall by 94,462 will take over from Governor Olusegun Mimiko who has served two terms as governor of Ondo State. A breakdown of the votes in various local government areas is as follows: 1. ALLIANCE FOR DEMOCRACY =126, 889 2. ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS =244, 842 3. PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC ...

There had been series of issued ahead of the polls, ranging from arms being arrested from loyalists to contesting candidates to irregularities in the party members presented to to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Eyitayo Jegede emerged as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after a Supreme Court judgment ruled against erstwhile factional candidate of same party, Jimoh Ibrahim. All the candidates have, according to our guys on ground in the state, voted and have either blamed the electoral body for the proper conduct or otherwise of the election. Earlier, Resident Electoral Commissioner, Olusegun Agbaje, informed that all the sensitive and non-sensitive materials were on ground for the election. ADVERTISING Read more: https://www.opytainment.blogspot. com