The Independent Electoral Commission has announced Governor Seyi Makinde returned elected, making him the winner of the Oyo Gubernatorial Elections.
Makinde won with a 65 per cent landslide in 31 out of 33 Local Government Areas, having polled 563,756 votes, as announced by the collation officer Professor Adebayo Bamire at the Independent National Electoral Commission office in Ibadan.
As announced, Bamire, Senator Teslim Folarin of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was a distant second with 256,685 votes. Adebayo Adelabu, the candidate of Accord, followed with 38,357 votes. Micheal Lana of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) polled 2,835 votes; Yusuf Akim of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) had 2,512, while Tawfiq Akinwale of the Labour Party had 1,500 votes.
A total of 889,592 votes were cast in the election
Out of 33 local government areas of the State, Makinde polled the highest number of votes in 31 local government areas, while Folarin won the remaining local government areas.
The two local government areas that the APC had the highest number of votes were Irepo and Oorelope local government areas.
An analysis of the results showed that Makinde recorded the highest victory margins in Ibadan North (27,775), Egbeda (23,067), Ibadan South-West (21,782), Ibadan North-East (20,910), Akinyele (19,475).
Makinde, by the victory, becomes the second governor, in the history of the State, after the late governor Abiola Ajimobi, to win a second term in office.
