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#NigeriaElections2023: Tinubu wins Ekiti in alleged “highly manipulated election”

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2 years ago

February 26, 2023

Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, won the presidential election held on Saturday in Ekiti State.

The election has been rated by many observers and independent bodies as highly manipulated.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Tinubu polled a total of 201, 484 votes, to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who had 89, 554 and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) who polled 11, 397 votes across the 16 local government areas of the state.

Prof. Akeem Lasisi, the Presidential Election Collation Officer for Ekiti, who announced the result at the INEC Headquarters in Ado-Ekiti, said that a total of 988, 923 voters registered in the state.

Lasisi, who is the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Health Sciences, Ila Orangun, Osun State, said the total number of accredited voters was 315, 058 while the total number of vote cast was 314, 472.

According to him, at the end of the exercise, the total number of valid votes cast was 308, 171 while 6,301 votes cast were invalid.

Lasisi, who described the turnout of voters in the state as very encouraging and impressive, based his observation on the total number of votes cast by the electorate during the presidential election.

“Yes, the turnout was very impressive as you can see from the number of people that came out to exercise their franchise,” he said.

Meanwhile, Mr Odunayo Okunade, the agent of the Labour Party for the Presidential election, claimed that many of his party members were intimidated, and prevented from exercising their franchise during the poll.

He also claimed that the names of the party’s candidates for the senatorial and House Representatives elections were omitted from the ballot papers.

“We are going to sit down and study the results for our next line of action. Some of our members were physically intimidated, assaulted and in the process prevented from voting. Not only that, more compounding is the non-inclusion of our candidates’ names on the ballot papers for the Senatorial and House of Representatives elections,” he said.

Reacting to the results, Mr Garuba Arogundade, the APC agent for the election, said: “The result scored by the party (APC) is a reflection of the fact that the party was and still is highly connected with the people of the state,”.

The breakdown of the total votes scored by the four major parties that participated in the presidential election is as follows:

1. Ilejeme LG

APC 4,599

PDP 2, 662

LP 97

2. Ise-Orun LG

APC 11, 415,

PDP 2, 734

LP 497

3. Efon LG

APC 5, 873

PDP 2, 521

LP 125

4. Gbonyin LG

APC 11, 969

PDP 4, 178

LP 245

5. Emure LG

APC 8, 159

PDP 3,035

LP 465

6. Irepodun/Ifelodun

APC 14, 265

PDP 5, 516

LP 544

7. Ikere LG

APC 11, 659

PDP 7, 198

LP 910

8. Ijero LG

APC 12, 628

PDP 5, 731

LP 373

9. Ido-Osi LG

APC 11, 917

PDP 7, 476

LP 782

10. Ekiti West LG

APC 14, 516

PDP 4, 318

LP 391

11. Moba LG

APC 12, 046

PDP 5, 847

LP 246

12. Ikole LG

APC 15, 465

PDP 10, 198

LP 779

13. Ekiti East

APC 12, 426

PDP 7, 782

LP 375

14. Oye LG

APC 14, 472

PDP 7, 143

LP 643

15. Ekiti South West

APC 11, 334

PDP 5, 047

LP 440

16. Ado-Ekiti LG

APC 28, 751

PDP 8, 168

LP 4, 485

Total scored by the major parties

APC – 201, 494

PDP – 89, 554

LP – 11, 397.