By Biodun Oyebanji, the immediate past Secretary to the State Government, has emerged as governor-elect after a landslide victory at the just-concluded gubernatorial election in Ekiti State.
The returning officer for the poll, Kayode Oyebode announced the final results in the early hours of Sunday.
Oyebanji, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, won 15 out of the 16 Local Government Areas in the state — polling 187,057 votes.
His main challengers are Segun Oni of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) who had 82,211 votes, and Bisi Kolawole of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who secured 67,457 votes.
The total valid votes is 351,865 and rejected votes stands as 8,888. The total votes cast is 360,753, while the total number of registered voters stands as 989,224 and total number of accredited voters is 363,438.
See the breakdown of the result by LGAs.
1. Ijero LG
APC: 13,754
PDP: 4,897
SDP: 5,006
2. Emure LG
APC: 7,728
PDP: 2,610
SDP: 3,445
3. Ekiti South West LG
APC: 9,679
PDP: 4,474
SDP: 4,577
4. Ikere LG
APC: 12,086
PDP: 3,789
SDP: 1,943
5. Moba LG
APC: 11,609
PDP: 3,530
SDP: 4,904
6. Ilejemeje LG
APC: 4,357
PDP: 1,157
SDP: 2,344
7. Efon Alaye LG
APC: 4,012
PDP: 6,303
SDP: 339
8. Ekiti West LG
APC: 15,322
PDP: 3,386
SDP: 3,863
9. Irepodun/Ifelodun LG
APC: 13,125
PDP: 4,712
SDP: 5,010
10. Oye LG
APC: 13,396
PDP: 4,122
SDP: 5,391
11. Ido-Osi LG
APC: 10,321
PDP: 2,871
SDP: 9,489
12. Ise-Orun LG
APC: 8,074
PDP: 2,588
SDP: 5,909
13. Ado-Ekiti LG
APC: 23,831
PDP: 7,575
SDP: 15,214
14. Ikole LG
APC: 16,417
PDP: 6,266
SDP: 5,736
15. Gbonyin LG
APC: 11,247
PDP: 3,947
SDP: 4,059
16. Ekiti East LG
APC: 12,099
PDP: 5,230
SDP: 4,982
