Sen. Bola Tinubu, the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 201, 484 votes to win the presidential election held on Saturday in Ekiti.
He also led other candidates in the election, in all the 16 Local Government Areas of the State.
Prof. Akeem Lasisi, the Presidential Election Collation Officer for Ekiti, who announced the result at the INEC Headquarters in Ado-Ekiti, said that a total of 988, 923 voters registered in the state.
Lasisi, who is the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Health Sciences, Ila Orangun, Osun State, said the total number of accredited voters was 315, 058 while the total number of votes cast was 314, 472.
According to him, at the end of the exercise the total number of valid votes cast was 308, 171 while 6,301 votes cast were invalid.
The State Collation Officer listed the figure scored by other major contenders in the election as follows: Atiku Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – 89, 554, Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) – 11, 397.
Lasisi described the turnout of voters in the state as very encouraging and impressive.
“Yes, the turnout was very impressive as you can see from the number of people that came out to exercise their franchise,” he said.
Meanwhile, Mr Odunayo Okunade, the agent of the Labour Party for the Presidential election, claimed that many of his party members were intimidated, and prevented from exercising their franchise during the poll.
He also claimed that the names of the party candidates for the Senatorial and House Representatives elections were omitted from the ballot papers.
“We are going to sit down and study the results for our next line of action.
“Some of our members were physically intimidated, assaulted and in the process prevented from voting.
“Not only that, more compounding is the non-inclusion of our candidates’ names on the ballot papers for the Senatorial and House of Representatives elections,” he said.
Reacting to the results, Mr Garuba Arogundade, the APC agent for the election, said, “the result scored by the party (APC) is a reflection of the fact that the party was and still highly connected with the people of the state,”.
The detailed results is as contained in the break down below, showing the total scores by the four major parties that participated in the Presidential election, reflecting Local Government Areas and final collated result.
Ilejeme LG –
APC 4,599
PDP 2662
LP 97
Ise-Orun LG
APC 11, 415
PDP 2, 734
LP 497
Efon LG
APC 5, 873
PDP 2521
LP 125
Gbonyin LG
APC 11, 969
PDP 4178
LP 245
Emure LG
APC 8, 159
PDP 3,035
LP 465
Irepodun/Ifelodun
APC 14,265
PDP 5516
LP 544
Ikere LG
APC 11,659
PDP 7,198
LP 910
Ijero LG
APC 12,628
PDP 5731
LP 373
Ido-Osi LG
APC 11917,
PDP 7476,
LP 782
Ekiti West LG
APC 14,516
PDP 4318
LP 391
Moba LG
APC 12,046
PDP 5,847
LP 246
Ikole LG
APC 15,465
PDP 10, 198
LP 779
Ekiti East
APC 12, 426
PDP 7,782
LP 375
Oye LG
APC, 14, 472
PDP 7, 143
LP 643
Ekiti South West
APC 11, 334
PDP 5, 047
LP 440
Ado-Ekiti LG
APC, 28, 751
PDP, 8, 168
LP, 4, 485
Total scored by the major parties
APC – 201,494
PDP – 89,554
LP – 11,397.
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