The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Seyi Makinde, has been declared winner of the governorship election in Oyo State.
He won 28 out of the 33 local governments in the state, leaving the All Progressives Congress with only five.
Makinde received 515, 621 votes to defeat his closest rival from the APC, Bayo Adelabu, who polled 357, 982 votes.
The margin of defeat is 157,639 votes.
The African Democratic Congress’ candidate, Olufemi Lanlehin, despite quitting the race to endorse the PDP candidate, came third with 12,375.
Former governor Adebayo Akala, who was the candidate of the Action Democratic Party before he defected to the APC, also received votes totaling 8,664 to come a distant fourth position.
Forty two (42) political parties contested the governorship election, even though many of them dropped their ambition at the last minute to align with either the PDP or the APC.
Their names remained on the ballot, notwithstanding and they received votes.
Violence
Although the governorship election was successfully conducted, it suffered a number of skirmishes, recording two deaths at the last count.
One of the casualties of the election was a serving House of Representatives member, Temitope Olatoye, of Lagelu/Akinyele federal constituency, who was shot dead by political thugs in his ward.
The governorship election also recorded several occurrences of ballot box snatching and violence, resulting in the cancellation of results from some wards and many polling units.
In Irepo local government area, the materials for the entire Ward 3 were burnt by hoodlums and so no results were declared.
The returning officer, Oluwatoyin Temitayo Ogundipe, who is the Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, while declaring the final results, said Mr Makinde having polled the highest number of votes in the election was returned elected as governor of Oyo State.
Victory locations
Local governments won by the PDP include Ibadan North West, Ibarapa East, Atiba, Kajola, Ido, Lagelu, Iwajowa, Afijio, Orelope, Ibadan North East, Ibadan South East, Ibarapa North, Atisbo, Ibarapa Central, Ogbomoso South, Ibadan North, Egbeda, Itesiwaju, Saki West, Saki East, Oyo West, Oyo East, Oluyole, Olorunsogo! Ona Ara, Akinyele, Iseyin and Ibadan South West local government areas.
The APC candidate won in Orire, Ogooluwa, Surulere, Ogbomoso North, and Irepo local government areas.
Ibadan North local government area delivered the highest number of votes for the PDP with 40,785 votes against the APC which received 18,868 votes there.
Crisis averted
However, the Ibadan South West votes came last because the INEC had to retrieve duplicate copies of the results from security and polling agents after hoodlums set the result sheets from the Ward 12 collation centre on fire.
The PDP won the local government with 34,445 votes against the APC which scored 18,183 votes.
Although the APC agent at the collation centre protested and called for the cancellation of the results, the Resident Electoral Commssioner, Mutiu Agboke, citing electoral guidelines, said the results could be ”regenerated since they were already announced at polling units and declared at the ward collation centre.
The results per local government are as follows:
IBADAN NORTH-WEST
APC:10,221
PDP:20,715
IBARAPA EAST
APC:8,646
PDP:13,002
ATIBA
APC:9,690
PDP: 14,636
Kajola
APC 12,982
PDP 13,600
IDO
APC:8,585
PDP:16,726
LAGELU
APC:11,923
PDP:16,217
IWAJOWA
APC:8,459
PDP:9,358
OGBOMOSHO SOUTH
APC:10,984
PDP:11,236
AFIJIO
APC:7,591
PDP:10,515
OORELOPE
APC:7,546
PDP:10,460
Ibadan North East
APC- 12,553
PDP- 30,824
Ibadan South East
APC 13,277
PDP 24,556
Oriire
APC: 15,810
PDP: 9,856
IBARAPA NORTH
APC: 8,644
PDP: 11,580
ATISBO LG
APC 9,678
PDP 10,026
IBARAPA CENTRAL
APC: 7,888
PDP: 10,964
OGOOLUWA
APC : 9,547
PDP : 6,152
SURULERE
APC 14,168
PDP 7,505
Ogbomosho North
APC 14, 442
PDP 13, 035
Ibadan North
APC 18,868
PDP 40,785
Egbeda
APC 13,581
PDP 24,203
Itesiwaju LG
APC 6,825
PDP 8,612
Irepo LG
APC 7,862
PDP 7,633
Saki West
APC: 15,147
PDP: 21,184
Saki East
APC 6,345
PDP 8,527
Oyo West
APC 9,756
PDP 12,132
Oyo East
APC 8,721
PDP 12,580
OLUYOLE
APC = 9,477
PDP = 18,070
Olorunsogo
APC 5,277
PDP 7,554
Ona Ara
APC 7, 848
PDP 14, 430
Akinyele
APC 12,023
PDP 23, 423
Iseyin
APC 15, 435
PDP 21, 080
Ibadan South West
APC 18,183
PDP 34,445
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