BREAKING: APC's Akeredolu set to become Ondo governor-elect

Rotimi Akeredolu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is set to become the governor-elect of Ondo State.


At the end of official results announced by the electoral commission, INEC, for 17 local governments, Mr. Akeredolu scored 224,167 votes. His closest challenger, Eyitayo Jegede of the state’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, scored 132,823 votes. Olusola Oke of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, currently has 98,230 votes.

The results of one local government, Ilaje, is still being expected and INEC has postponed further announcement of results to 11 a.m.

Apart from winning the highest number of votes cast in the 17 local governments already announced, Mr. Akeredolu also won the highest number of councils. He won in 14 local governments, Mr. Jegede won in two while Mr. Oke won in one local government.

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	Local Government	Registered Voters	Accredited Voters	AD	APC	PDP
1	Ondo East	45,050	15,987	2,742	4,253	7,317
2	Ile-oluji/Oke Igbo	66,090	26,281	4,522	10,681	8,306
3	Akoko North East			5, 867	13, 645	6, 496
4	Ifedore	70359	24501	4,629	10,958	6,747
5	Irele	60,264	26,225	6,710	11,138	5,907
6	Ondo West	155,346	40,028	7,154	10,672	17,382
7	Ose	63,397	26,548	4,272	13,454	6,520
8	Akure North	65,268	24,076	4,123	10,710	6,493
9	Akoko South East	31,068	14,036	2,270	6,384	4,239
10	Akoko South West	93,314	40,719	9,359	19,892	7,691
11	Akoko North West	64,735	37067	4,831	13048	6, 049
12	Okitipupa	99,359	43,518	16,294	14,930	8,031
13	Owo	118131	42,759	2,469	32,988	4,241
14	Ese Odo	66,507	25,563	3,562	10,700	8,701
15	Akure South	261,281	69,916	12,270	25,797	25,005
16	Odigbo	117,794	39,174	8,187	17,581	8,668
17	Idanre	72,344	25,957	4836	10,981	7,575