Hours after voting was concluded in the Ondo State Governorship election, and collation commenced, 75% of the results have been uploaded to the INEC portal.
National Commissioner, Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Anthonia Simbine, disclosed this in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Saturday.
“Right now, Polling Unit results have been uploaded and we have about 75% of those unit results uploaded on the INEC results viewing portal,” Simbine said.
She, however, said she can’t predict when the final results would come out as the state is very large.
“I don’t think we can say for definite now. You know that Ondo State is quite large with varying types of terrain, including going over the seas and all the results have to come in before we can really say”.
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The results that have come in so far, according to the INEC official, are from 2,200 Polling Units.
Speaking further, Simbine clarified the process of uploading the results, saying the ‘Z Pad’ was not fully utilised but it was only used to upload the results.
“The Z Pad was to be used for two functions,” the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Edo State, Johnson Alalibo, had explained during the Edo governorship election last month, “one of which was to do double authentication of the accreditation process.”
“It was test run in the state constituency election in Nasarawa State but there were some hitches and we have been advised to test run those hitches before we run it again for this major state governorship election”.
If implemented, the Z Pad, according to Alalibo would have allowed Nigerians view the results “on time, and real-time”.
Simbine, however, noted that the process was neither used for the Ondo nor the Edo election until the challenges from the test run have been rectified.
Key candidates in the race which involved 17 political parties, are the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Eyitayo Jegede who is hoping to secure a victory after losing out in 2016; the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) and deputy governor of the state, Ajayi Agboola, who is running against his principal, Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who is also seeking to secure a second term.
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RESULT OF POLL: Final Result For Owo LGA
APC: 35957
PDP: 5311
ZLP: 408
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RESULT OF POLL: Final Result For Akoko South East LGA
APC – 9,419
PDP – 4,003
ZLP – 2,004
RESULT OF POLL: Ifedore LGA Final result
APC – 9350
PDP – 11852
ZLP – 1863
RESULT OF POLL: Ward 12, Okitipupa I, Okitipupa LGA
APC – 1634
PDP – 739
ZLP – 1866
RESULT OF POLL: Ward 13, Okitipupa II
APC – 2128
PDP – 888
ZLP – 1910
Final Result for Akoko South West LGA
APC – 21232
PDP – 15055
ZLP – 2775
Local Government collation Officer:
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RESULT OF POLL: Ile Oluji/ Oke Igbo LGA Final Result
APC – 13287
PDP – 9231
ZLP – 1971
RESULT OF POLL: Okitipupa LGA, Illutitun Ward 3
APC – 1408
PDP – 1222
ZLP – 410
Akoko North East Final Result As Announced By Professor A.O Adesoji, LGA Collation Officer
APC – 16,572
PDP – 8,380
ZLP – 3,532
RESULT OF POLL: Ese-Odo LGA, Ward 01
APC – 904
PDP – 263
ZLP – 721
Valid votes: 1986
Rejected votes: 104
Total votes cast: 2090
RESULT OF POLL: Ese-Odo Local Government Area, Ward 03
APC: 1503
PDP: 381
ZLP: 1031
RESULT OF POLL: Ese-Odo Ward Collation Results
WARD 04
APC: 765
PDP: 329
RESULT OF POLL: Ese-Odo Ward Collation Results
WARD 05
APC: 986
PDP: 300
ZLP: 229
Collation about to commence at Okitipupa LGA
