A civil rights organisation, YIAGA Africa, has spoken against the preponderance of vote-trading recorded in the October 10 Ondo State governorship election. The organization said it was alarmed at the way that such an act takes place even in the presence of security operatives. The Executive Director of YIAGA Africa, Samson Itodo, made this disclosure while speaking on a television station
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The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced Governor Rotimi Akeredolu as the winner of Ondo’s governorship election, having polled the highest score of 292,830 votes. The incumbent Governor won the elections against the key rival Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Eyitayo Jegede, that pulled 195,791 votes, and the Deputy Governor, Agboola Ajayi, of the Zenith Labour Party, who came a distant
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The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is already in a massive early lead in the Saturday Governorship Elections. Of the 12 Local Government Areas (LGAs) announced so far, the PAC candidate, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, has won in 11 LGAs with wide margins across. He currently has a total of 161,667 votes while the candidate of the Peoples Democratic
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Pooling Unit Election results for 10 Local Government Areas(LGAs) ready for download in the portal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Results from 2873 polling were ready as at 11.50 pm Saturday night. INEC reports that their staff could confirm that voting took place across 3009 polling units and 18 LGAs during Saturday’s Ondo State Governorship election. Complete results
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A man has been stabbed by thugs at a polling unit in Akure, the Ondo State capital during the governorship election earlier today.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission says the winner in the Ondo State governorship election, will be in “hopefully” by announced by Sunday afternoon. This announcement was made by INEC’s Senior National Commissioner, Prof Anthonia Simbine, while speaking in a television programme in Akure, the state capital, on Saturday evening. The INEC Commissioner says around 70% of the results from all
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Peoples’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the Ondo governorship poll, Eyitayo Jegede, has led his party to victory in Igbogin/Isikan Ward 2, unit 9, where he voted, his polling unit. Jegede garnered 220 votes while the candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC), Rotimi Akeredolu was only able to pull 60 votes. The candidate of the Zenith Labour Party, Agboola Ajayi,
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Current Ondo State Deputy Governor and the candidate of Zenith Labour Party (ZLP), Agboola Ajayi, led his party to victory at his polling unit in Kiribo in the Ese Odo Local Government Area. Results made public by officials of the officials of Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), titled, ‘Publication of Result of Poll’, Agboola won the Apoi Ward II, Unit 004,
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With less than 72 hours to the governorship election in Ondo State, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Mr Peter Fasua, has thrown his support behind the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Rotimi Akeredolu. The SDP candidate for the elections withdrew from the race not long after participating in the Peace Accord Meeting that took place on Tuesday in
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A mild drama ensued at the conclusion of the Peace Accord meeting for the peaceful conduct of the Ondo Governorship elections slated for 10th October 2020 as Akeredolu refused to shake hands with the deputy governor. The candidates of political parties cleared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the Ondo 2020 Governorship elections have signed a peace accord
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