INEC declares Seyi Makinde Oyo governor-elect

Mr Seyi Makinde of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has emerged winner of Saturday’s governorship election in Oyo state and has been declared governor-elect.

Seyi Makinde: Oyo governor-elect

Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, the INEC Returning Officer, who is also the Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, declared the result on Sunday evening at the State headquarters of INEC in Ibadan.

Ogundipe, said that Makinde scored 515,621 votes to defeat his closest rival, Mr Adebayo Adelabu of the All Progressives Congress(APC) who garnered 357,982 votes.

There are 2,934,107 registered voters in the state with 940,211 voters accredited for the election.

”The governorship election recorded 916,860 valid votes, 20,685 rejected votes and 937,545 total votes cast,” Ogundipe said.

”PDP candidate won in 28 of the 33 local government areas of the state while Adelabu of APC won in five local government areas,” he said.

Meanwhile, PDP won 26 seats in the State House of Assembly election also held on Saturday and APC won five seats while African Democratic Party(ADP) won one seat.

Result of the supplementary election for the Ibarapa Central/North Federal Constituency also revealed that Mr Muraina Ajibola, PDP candidate was declared winner with 14,773 votes.