Collation continues tomorrow
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has won Ekiti State with 201,494 defeating his nearest rival, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who scored 89,554.
The Collation Officer for the just concluded Presidential election in Ekiti, Prof. Akeem Olawale Lasisi, who is the Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Health Sciences, Ila Orangun, Osun State, announced the results at the national collation centre, Abuja, on Sunday.
He said APC won after collating results from the 16 Local Government Areas of the state.
Lasisi explained that the total number of votes cast during the election was 314,472, while the total number of valid votes was 308,171, while the total number of rejected votes was 6301.
He said 1703 votes were canceled due to Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) bye-pass and over-voting.
Meanwhile, INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu announced the postponement of the collection, stating that only Ekiti State results were available at that time.
Therefore, he said that the collection of results will continue on Monday (tomorrow) at 11 o’clock.