The presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu emerged victorious in the presidential polls held on Saturday in Ekiti State.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Tinubu polled a total of 201, 484 votes, to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who had 89, 554 and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) who polled 11, 397 votes across 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 vote 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.
Lasisi, who described the turnout of voters in the state as very encouraging and impressive, based his observation on the total number of votes cast by the electorate during the presidential election.
“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’s 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 is highly connected with the people of the state,”.
The breakdown of the total votes scored by the four major parties that participated in the presidential election is as follows:
1. Ilejeme LG
APC 4,599
PDP 2, 662
LP 97
2. Ise-Orun LG
APC 11, 415,
PDP 2, 734
LP 497
3. Efon LG
APC 5, 873
PDP 2, 521
LP 125
4. Gbonyin LG
APC 11, 969
PDP 4, 178
LP 245
5. Emure LG
APC 8, 159
PDP 3,035
LP 465
6. Irepodun/Ifelodun
APC 14, 265
PDP 5, 516
LP 544
7. Ikere LG
APC 11, 659
PDP 7, 198
LP 910
8. Ijero LG
APC 12, 628
PDP 5, 731
LP 373
9. Ido-Osi LG
APC 11, 917
PDP 7, 476
LP 782
10. Ekiti West LG
APC 14, 516
PDP 4, 318
LP 391
11. Moba LG
APC 12, 046
PDP 5, 847
LP 246
12. Ikole LG
APC 15, 465
PDP 10, 198
LP 779
13. Ekiti East
APC 12, 426
PDP 7, 782
LP 375
14. Oye LG
APC 14, 472
PDP 7, 143
LP 643
15. Ekiti South West
APC 11, 334
PDP 5, 047
LP 440
16. 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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