BREAKING: Fayemi wins Ekiti governorship election
By The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Dr John Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the Ekiti governorship election.
The Returning Officer for the election, Professor Abel Idowu Olayinka, who declared the results on Sunday morning, said Dr Fayemi polled a total of 197,459 votes to emerge the winner of the election.
Professor Olayinka said Professor Kolapo Olubunmi Olusola of the PDP polled 178,121 in the election.
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His keen and closest contender, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prof Kolapo Olushola, who is the incumbent deputy governor of the state, won in four local governments.
It should benrecalled that Fayemi, the immediate former Minister of Mineral Resources, was defeated in all the 16 local governments of the state by the incumbent Governor Fayose in 2014, (four years ago).
The election was adjudged to be generally peaceful across the state, but with alleged large-scale vote-buying by supporters of both political parties.
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