BREAKING: APC Wins Ekiti Governorship Election

Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Biodun Oyebanji, has been declared winner of the Ekiti State governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Oyebanji, who is the immediate past Secretary to the State Government, won in 15 out of the 16 Local Government Areas of the state.

He polled 187,057 votes to beat his two closest challengers, Social Democratic Party, SDP’s Segun Oni and Bisi Kolawole of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

The SDP also beat the PDP to finish in second place in the polls with total votes of 82,211 while the PDP was third with 67,457 votes.

This means that the APC has retained power in the state with Oyebanji replacing incumbent Kayode Fayemi in October.

However, only 363,438 voters were accredited.

It gathered that all the results from the 16 local government areas had been uploaded on the Result Viewing Portal of the Independent National Electoral Commission, known as IReV.

The polls officially opened at around 8:30am on Saturday and was expected to close at 2:30 pm.