Ondo poll: Akeredolu, Ajayi, Jegede win own units
Indigenes in bated breath as results trickle in
As the results of the gubernatorial election held yesterday in Ondo begin to trickle in, the three major candidates in the election have delivered their individual polling units, amid mounting tension across the state as indigenes anxiously await the result of the exercise that was largely peaceful.
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) delivered his unit. The APC candidate polled 413 votes in his ward 5 unit 6, ljebu – Owo, while PDP scored 12 votes. The ZLP scored zero.
Agboola Ajayi, candidate of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP), also won his polling unit 004 – R.C.M at Idumado Quarters, Kiribo in EseOdo council area of Ondo State.
Whereas he polled 395; PDP got 5, while APC garnered 13.
By the same token, the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Eyitayo Jegede, won his polling in Ward 02, Unit 09 in Akure South Local Government, where he voted.
According to the poll results announced in Ward 02, Unit 09 and Unit 10, PDP polled 158 votes, ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) got 43 votes, while Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) polled 4 votes.
At the Ward 02, Unit 09, PDP polled 220 votes, APC polled 60 votes and ZLP got 7 votes.
The announcement of the ward at the unit sparked jubilation among the Jegede’s supporters. They also burst into victory songs, while accompanying the candidate to his family house which is about 150 metres away from his polling booth and unit.
A former governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko, also won in his unit.
At the Ward 7, Unit 20 in Ondo West Local Government Area of the state, where Mimiko, who is the National Leader of the ZLP, voted; the ZLP scored 81, the PDP scored 31 while the ruling APC polled 19 votes.