
INEC Declares Aiyedatiwa Winner of Ondo Guber Election
The governor of Ondo state, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has been declared winner of the Ondo state governorship election.
The Returning Officer for the election, Olayemi Akinwumi, who is also the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State declared Aiyedatiwa of the All Progressives Congress (APC) the winner of the election on Sunday, extending the governor’s stay at the Government House in Alagbaka, Akure.
According to INEC, Aiyedatiwa who is the incumbent governor of the Sunshine State polled 366,781 votes to defeat his closest rival and a former deputy governor of the state Ajayi Agboola who flew the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flagbearer. He scored 117,845 votes, more than twice lower than the APC candidate.
“That Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa of the APC having satisfied the requirement of the law is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” the returning officer said at exactly 2:30pm at the INEC collation centre in Akure.
A former deputy governor, Aiyedatiwa ascended into the leadership of the South-West state on December 27th, 2023 after Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s death.
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