Ondo Decides 2024: INEC declares Lucky Aiyedatiwa winner
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of Saturday’s governorship election in Ondo State.
Aiyedatiwa was declared the winner after polling the most votes in the election.
The incumbent governor battled Ajayi Agboola of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olorunfemi Festus of the Labour Party (LP), and Abbas Mimiko of Zenith Labour Party (ZLP), among others, in Saturday’s poll.
Announcing the result in Akure, the state capital, Prof. Akinwumi Olayemi Durotimi, INEC’s Returning Officer and Vice Chancellor of Federal University, Lokoja, said the APC candidate polled a total of 366,781, PDP got 117,845, while LP had 1,162.
He said, “Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa of the APC having satisfied the requirements of the law and scored the highest number of lawful votes cast, is hereby returned elected.”
Aiyedatiwa who succeeded late Oluwarotimi Akeredolu on December 27, 2023, is from Ilaje Local Government Area in the southern senatorial district of the state.
