Fayemi, who was governor of the state between 2010 and 2014, has won no fewer than 13 of the 16 councils, including the council of incumbent Ayodele Fayose. In what appeared to be poetic justice, Fayemi won in Irepodun-Ifelodun council, the home base of Fayose.
Dr Kayode Fayemi, candidate of the All Progressives Congress,in the Ekiti governorship election, is coasting home to victory, according to the results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission in majority of the 16 local councils in the state.
Fayemi polled 13,869 votes. The PDP candidate, Olusola Eleka, Fayose’s deputy got 11,456 votes.
In the 2014 election, massively rigged by Fayose’s PDP, Fayemi lost all the Ekiti councils to Fayose.
This time around, Fayemi only lost in Fayose’s polling unit and ward.
However, the votes in other wards were not enough to secure victory for Fayose’s party and candidate in the local government.
The local government has 11 wards. Results from each ward was collated at the headquarters of INEC situated in Igede.
A total of 66,162 electorates are registered in the local government while 27,306 were accredited.
INEC headquarters in Ado-Ekiti is compiling all the results from the local councils and the official announcement will be made later Sunday.
According to reports from local council collation centers, Fayemi also won in Oye LGA, Ilejemeje, Ido-Osi, Gbonyin and Moba.
However, he narrowly lost Ado-Ekiti, where Fayose doled out a minimum of N4000 to would-be-voters on Friday.
PDP’s Koloapo wins polling unit
Prof. Olusola Eleka won in his polling units as counting began after voting on Saturday.
Olusola Eleka, who is the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate scored 452 votes in his unit in Ikere Ekiti, while Dr John Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC), scored 105 votes.
There are 1,103 registered voters in Unit 007, Ward 2, Okekuru, Ikere-Ekiti, where the PDP candidate voted.
The reverse was the case at Fayemi’s polling unit of Isan Ward II Unit 9. While Fayemi polled 186 votes, Olusola Eleka got only 2 votes.
In Polling Unit 7 ward 9 Olora layout on Adebayo Street in Ado Ekiti, while PDP polled 257 votes, the APC trailed with 202 vote
Fayemi, Segun Oni win polling
By Dirisu Yakubu
ABUJA-The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to accept or announce any result that does not reflect the true votes cast at polling centres in Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti State, warning that such would be a direct call to crisis.
The PDP said the public was already aware of the plots by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to smuggle in altered results at the collation level.
“The PDP has however noted how some compromised INEC officials are allowing the hirelings of the APC to attack and chase away our party’s agents at the collation centers, particularly in our electoral areas of stronghold.
“The PDP in very strong terms, cautions INEC to be guided and ensure that it is not pushed by the APC or any interest, for that matter, to subvert the will of the people as that would be a recipe for crisis.
“The people of Ekiti state already know the results that have been declared at the polling centers and as such know where the tide is flowing at every level of the Ekiti electioneering process,” the party stated in a press release issued by the party’s spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan.
