Nigeria Decides: INEC Declares Tinubu Winner In Ekiti State As LP Takes Early Lead In Delta

AS more results of the presidential and National Assembly Elections are being announced by the various state Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) offices across the country, as at the close of collation yesterday at the INEC headquarters in Abuja, the result for Ekiti State was the only state result ready of all the states of the federation.

Announcing the result, the Chief collation officer for the election in the state, Professor Akeem Lasisi who declared the results on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Tinubu won the state with 201,494 votes representing 65 per cent of total valid votes cast, the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar polled 89,554 votes representing 29 per cent, while the candidate of the Labour Party LP), Peter Obi scored 11,397 votes, representing four per cent and the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso got 264 votes.

Professor Lasisi who is the Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Health Sciences, Ila Orangun, Osun State said , “Ekiti has a total of 988,923 registered voters, out of this, the number of accredited voters 315,058. Total valid votes, 308,171, the number of rejected votes 6,301 and total votes cast, 314,470. This is the final result of the presidential election in Ekiti State.”

So far, as at the time of filing this report from the INEC collation office in Asaba, Delta State, Presidential Results of Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State as announced by the Electoral officer for the local government revealed that while Total Registered Voters was 109,080 and Accredited Voters 23,938 the All Progressives Congress (APC)   secured 3,850, Labour (LP) 10199, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) 5403.

Also, a breakdown of the Presidential Election Results from local government areas so declared in Delta State. Ika South Local Government Area has the APC polling 3,290, LP 17,868, PDP 7,485, Total Registered Voters was 99, 597 and Accredited Voters was 31,574.

For Aniocha North Local Government Area, also of Delta State, the APC secured 1,146, LP 11,678, PDP  3,783, Total Registered Voters was 88,970 and Accredited Voters was 18,156.

For Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State, the APC got 1,902, LP 8,980, PDP 16,696, Total Registered Voters was 131,945 while Accredited Voters was 31,605.

From Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, the APC secured 1,688, LP 14,929, PDP 4,796, Total Registered Voters was 101,608 and Accredited Voters was 23,812. More results are being expected as INEC reconvenes at 11am today.

A breakdown of the result as gathered from all the local government areas of Ekiti State is as follows:

1. ILEJEMEJE LGA

APC– 4,599

LP -97

PDP- 2662

NNPP- 3

2. ISE/ORUN LGA

APC– 11,415

LP- 497

PDP- 2,734

NNPP- 10

3  EFONLGA

APC-5’873

LP- 125

PDP- 2,521

NNPP-3

4

. GBONYIN LGA

APC-. 11,969

LP-245

PDP-4,178

NNPP-11

5. EMURE LGA

APC-8,159

LP-465

NNPP-14

PDP- 3035

6. IREPODUN/ IFELODUN LGA

APC-14,265

LP- 544

PDP-5,516

NNPP-24

7. KERELGA

APC-11,659

LP- 910

NNPP- 24

PDP- 7,198

8. IJERO LGA

APC- 12, 628

LP- 373

NNPP- 6

PDP- 5, 731

9. IDO/OSI LGA

APC- 11, 917

LP- 782

NNPP- 14

PDP- 7, 476

10 : EKITI WEST LGA

APC- 14, 516

LP- 391

NNPP- 10

PDP- 4, 318

11. MOBA LGA

APC- 12, 046

LP- 246

NNPP- 11

PDP- 5, 847

12. IKOLE LGA

APC- 15, 465

LP- 779

NNPP- 11

PDP- 10, 198

13. EKITI East LGA

APC- 12, 435

LP- 375

NNPP- 7

PDP- 7, 782

14. OYE LGA

APC- 14, 472

LP- 643

NNPP- 20

PDP- 7, 143

15. EKITI SOUTH WEST LGA

APC- 11, 334

LP- 440

NNPP- 9

PDP- 5047

16. ADO LGA

APC- 28, 751

LP- 4, 485

NNPP- 87

PDP- 8, 168