The Independent National Electoral Commission,INEC, in Ogun State on
Sunday night announced the presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner of the poll in the state.
The
State Collating Officer,Duro Oni, while announcing the results to
journalists at about 9.00 p.m. at the commission’s headquarters in
Abeokuta said of the total 559,613 votes cast, the APC candidate polled
308,290 to defeat President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, who scored 207,950.
The votes of other parties are:
AA 584,AD 1927,ACPN 3072,ADC 1364,APA 1930,CPP 978,Hope 332,Kowa 432,NCP
815,UDP 562,PPN 4339 and UPP 597.
Mr. Oni, who is the Deputy
Vice-Chancellor of University of Lagos, also disclosed that the total
registered voters was 594,975,while total number of valid votes was
533,172 and number of rejected votes was 26,441.
The Collation
Officer, accompanied by the State Resident Electoral Commissioner,
Timothy Ibitoye, called on the party agents to sign the results, putting
an end to the exercise.
From the breakdown of the results, the APC won in 13 local governments while PDP won in 7.