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Breaking: Akeredolu is governor-elect of Ondo State

Akeredolu after winning in his polling booth

Akeredolu after winning in his polling booth

There is an ongoing jubilations in the camp of the APC as Rotimi Akeredolu, the party’s candidate leads in 14 out of the 17 local governments results so far announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the just concluded Ondo governorship election.

With just one more local government to announce, Akeredolu has with a landslide won the Ondo State governorship election. Akeredolu is leading with more tha 90, 446 votes.

From the results released so far, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Rotimi Akeredolu won 14 local governments while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won in two local governments and Alliance for Democracy (AD) won in one.

Here are the results:

Akure. (1) IRELE LGA Total Reg. Voters : 60,264 Accred. Voters: 26,225 @APCNigeria : 11,138 @OfficialPDPNig : 5,907 AD : 6,710 APC wins

(2)ONDO East LGA Total Reg. Voters : 45050 Accred Voters: 15987 @APCNigeria : 4253 @OfficialPDPNig : 7317 AD: 2742 PDP wins

(3)Ile-Oluji/Okeigbo LGA Reg Voters: 66090 Accred Voters: 26281 @OfficialPDPNig : 8,306 AD: 4525 SDP: 144 @APCNigeria : 10681 APC Wins

(4)AKOKO North/East LGA Reg Voters: 72911 Accred Voters: 31129 @APCNigeria: 13,645 @OfficialPDPNig : 6496 AD: 5867 APC Wins

(5)IFEDORE LGA Reg. Voters: 70359 Accred. Voters: 24501 @APCNigeria :10958 @OfficialPDPNig : 6747 AD: 4629 APC Wins

(6)OSE LGA Reg. Voters : 63,397 Accred. Voters : 26,548 @APCNigeria : 13,454 @OfficialPDPNig : 6,520 AD: 4, 272 APC Wins

(7)ONDO WEST LGA Reg. Voters: 155,346 Accred. Voters : 40,028 @APCNigeria : 10, 672 @OfficialPDPNig :17,382 AD: 7,154 PDP Wins.

(8) Akure North LGA AD: 4,123 APC: 10, 710 PDP: 6, 498 APC wins

(9) AKOKO SOUTH EAST: Reg. Voters: 31,068 Accred. Voters: 14,036 AD: 2, 270 APC: 6,384 PDP: 4,239. APC wins

(10) Akoko South-West LGA: AD: 9,359; APC:19,892; PDP: 7,691. APC wins

(11) AKOKO NORTH WEST: Reg voters= 64,735 Accredited =30,369 AD = 4,831 APC-13,048 PDP =6,049 APC Wins

(12) Owo LGA – AD: 2,469; APC: 32,988; PDP:4,241 APC wins

(13) Okitipupa LGA – AD:16,294; APC: 14,930; PDP: 8,031 AD wins

(14) Idanre LGA: AD -4,836; APC- 10,981; PDP- 7,575. APC wins

(15) Odigbo LGA AD-8,187; APC- 17,581; PDP- 8,668. APC wins

(16) Akure South LGA: AD- 12,270; APC- 25,797; PDP- 25,005. APC wins

Two more local governments to go. They are Ilaje and Ese Odo local governments. Results from Ese Odo has arrived.

(17) Ese-Odo LGA: AD- 3,562; APC- 10,700; PDP- 8,701. APC wins

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