Mr Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has beaten his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Mr Eyitayo Jegede and re-elected as governor of Ondo state.
He won 15 of the 18 local governments by scoring 292,830 votes, while Jegede and Mr Agboola Ajayi of the Zenith Labour Party came second and third in the election with 195,791 and 69,127 votes, respectively.
The Chief Returning Officer for the election, Professor Idowu Olayinka, returned Akeredolu as the governor-elect on Sunday.
“Having satisfied the requirement of the law and scored the highest number of votes, I hereby declare Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu of the APC as the winner, and he is hereby returned elected,” Professor Olayinka declared said.
