Precious Oham
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Collation Officer in Ekiti State and Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Health Sciences, Ila Orangun, Osun State, Professor Akeem Lasisi, has announced the result of the Presidential election held on Saturday.
Prof. Lasisi announced the final results at the state Collation Centre in Ado Ekiti after the collation officers from the 16 council Areas presented their results one after the other.
He explained that out of the 18 registered politcal parties that took part in the exercise, the All Progressive Congress (APC) got the highest number of votes with Two Hundred and One Thousand, four hundred and ninety four votes.
Also, the PDP came second with eighty nine thousand, five hundred and fifty four votes while Labour party polled eleven thousand, three hundred and ninety seven votes, as New Nigerian Peoples’ Party secured two hundred and sixty four votes.
Professor Lasisi said the total number of Vote cast was three hundred and fourteen thousand, four hundred and seventy eight while over six thousand votes were rejected.
The INEC State Collation Officer said Ekiti State had 986 thousand, seven hundred and seventy seven registered voters out of Which 315 thousand and 58 were accredited for the election.
On his part, INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, professor Ayobami Salami thanked all the stakeholders for their support which led to the peaceful conduct of the exercise.
All the party agents at the state Collation Centre signed the result sheets and collected one copy each.
The result from 16 Local Government Area as announced by INEC:
ILEJEMEJE LG
APC– 4,599
LP-97
PDP-. 2662
NNPP- 3
ISE/ORUN
APC– 11,415
LP- 497
PDP- 2,734
NNPP- 10
EFON LG
APC-5’873
LP- 125
PDP- 2,521
NNPP-3
GBONYIN LG
APC-. 11,969
LP-245
PDP-4,178
NNPP-11
EMURE LG
APC-8,159
LP-465
NNPP-14
PDP- 3035
IREPODUN/ IFELODUN
APC-14,265
LP- 544
PDP-5,516
NNPP-24.
IKERE LG
APC-11,659
LP- 910
NNPP- 24
PDP- 7,198
IJERO LG
APC- 12, 628
LP- 373
NNPP- 6
PDP- 5, 731
IDO/OSI LG
APC- 11, 917
LP- 782
NNPP- 14
PDP- 7, 476
EKITI WEST LG
APC- 14, 516
LP- 391
NNPP- 10
PDP- 4, 318
MOBA LG
APC- 12, 046
LP- 246
NNPP- 11
PDP- 5, 847
IKOLE LG
APC- 15, 465
LP- 779
NNPP- 11
PDP- 10, 198.
EKITI East LG
APC- 12, 435
LP- 375
NNPP- 7
PDP- 7, 782
Oye local Govt
APC- 14, 472
LP- 643
NNPP- 20
PDP- 7, 143.
EKITI south west.
APC- 11, 334
LP- 440
NNPP- 9
PDP- 5047
Ado Ekiti Local Govt
APC- 28, 751
LP- 4, 485
NNPP- 87
PDP- 8, 168