The Candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in yesterday’s gubernatorial election in Ondo state and incumbent governor of the state, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has emerged winner of the keenly contested election.
Akeredolu, popularly known as Aketi, won the election by polling 292,830 to beat his closest rival and candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Eyitayo Jegede, who recorded 195,791 votes, as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in Akure, Sunday.
Coming third in the contest is the flagbearer of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) and incumbent Deputy Governor of the state, Agboola Ajayi, with 69,127 votes.
The INEC Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Abel Olayinka, who announced the final results, declared Akeredolu as the winner.
He said: “That Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of APC has secured the highest number of votes and 25 percent in all the 18 local governments. Therefore, having satisfied the requirements of the law, I hereby declare Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, SAN, as the winner of the election.”
In his short reaction after he was declared winner of the election, Akeredolu thanked the people of the state for standing by him throughout the electioneering period and promised to continue the good work he had started.
He enjoined his opponents to join hands with him in his desire to make the state better than it is today.
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