The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the Ondo State governorship election, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), is coasting home to victory.
So far, from results of 12 out of 18 local governments released so far, Akeredolu won nine.
His Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Eyitayo Jegede (SAN), won in three.
Trailing them is the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) candidate and deputy governor, Agboola Ajayi, who has not won any local government.
Below are results from the 12 local governments.
1. Ifedore LGA
APC 9350 PDP 11852 ZLP 1863
2. Ile Oluji/Oke Igbo LGA
APC 13278 PDP 9231 ZLP 1971
3. Irele LGA
APC 12643 PDP 5493 ZLP 5904
4. Akoko N.E. LGA
APC 16572 PDP 8380 ZLP 3532
5. Akoko S.W. LGA
APC 21232 PDP 15055 ZLP 2775.
6. Akoko N.W. LGA
APC 15809 PDP 10320 ZLP 3477.
7. Ondo East LGA
APC 6485 PDP 4049 ZLP 3231.
8. Owo LGA
APC 35957 PDP 5311 ZLP 408.
9. Akure North LGA
APC 9546 PDP 12263 ZLP 1046.
10. 1danre LGA
APC 11286 PDP 7499 ZLP 3623.
11. Akoko S.E. LGA
APC 9419 PDP 4003 ZLP 2004.
12. Akure South LGA
APC 17277 PDP 47627 ZLP 2236.
In his reaction, Akeredolu said on his Facebook wall: “Great is Thy faithfulness! Great is Thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided. Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!”
Meanwhile, in fulfilment of its pledge to continue promoting transparency in electoral process using technology, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it made progress in uploading election results from polling units (PUs) during Saturday’s governorship election.
According to INEC, the results were uploaded on its result view portal.
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on August 6, introduced a dedicated public election result viewing portal, known as “The INEC Result Viewing (IReV) portal’’.
At the Ondo election, therefore, results from 2,518 polling units out of the 3,009 units in 18 Local Governments across the state were uploaded on the portal as at 7.50 p.m. on Saturday.
The uploading of results from the 168 PUs in Akoko South West LG had been completed, while in Akoko South East, result of 174 out of 176 polling units had been uploaded.
For Akoko North West LG, INEC said it has also uploaded results from 155 PUs out of the 166 PUs, while results for 96 PUs out of the 106 units in Akure North LG have been uploaded on the portal.
Also for Ese Odo LG, results from 69 of the 126 PUs have been uploaded; so are 294 results out of the 302 polling units in Akure South, while 150 PUs’ results of the 151 PUs in Ifedore had been uploaded.
The commission has also uploaded results from 120 out of 132 PUs in Irele LG, 214 out of 266 in Okitipupa, and 210 out of 218 in Owo.
To strengthen election management process and enhance transparency of the system, the portal which could be accessed by longing in to https://inecelectionresults.com, is to enable Nigerians view results from polling units in real time on election day.
The portal was introduced alongside the Z-pad, a tablet with dual functions of uploading of scanned copies of election results at polling Units to the portal, as well as a secondary authentication mechanism to support the smartcard readers on voters’ verification on election day.
The instruments went for test running at the August 8 Nasarawa Central State Constituency by-election in Nasarawa State and subsequently deployed for the September 19 Edo governorship election.
