The All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate and incumbent governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has emerged winner of the Ondo State Governorship election held on Saturday.

Prof. Olayemi Akinwumi, the Returning Officer of INEC and Vice Chancellor of University of Lokoja, yesterday in Akure, declared Aiyedatiwa winner after results from the 18 local government areas were received and counted.

Akinwumi said that the APC candidate, Aiyedatiwa polled 366,781 votes to defeat his closet rival, Ajayi Agboola of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 117,845 votes, and Neyo Adeyemi of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) came a distant third, polling 4,138 votes.

The election held on Saturday was generally reported as peaceful and without any incidence of violence and ballot snatching.

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