As the results of the gubernatorial election held in Ondo State on Saturday begin to trickle in, the three major candidates in the election have delivered their individual polling units amid mounting tension across the state as indigenes anxiously await the result of the exercise that was largely peaceful.
Though 17 candidates are taking part in the election, the top contenders are believed to be Rotimi Akeredolu, Eyitayo Jegede, and Agboola Ajayi.
Rotimi Akeredolu, the sitting governor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), delivered his unit. The APC candidate polled 413 votes in his ward 5 unit 6, ljebu-Owo; his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rival, Eyitayo Jegede, scored 12 votes, while the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) candidate, Agboola Ajayi, scored zero.
Ajayi also won his polling unit 004 – R.C.M. at Idumado Quarters, Kiribo in Ese-Odo council area of Ondo State. Whereas he polled 395, PDP got 5 votes, while APC garnered 13 votes.
By the same token, PDP’s Jegede won his polling unit in Ward 02, Unit 09 in Akure South Local Government Area, where he voted.
According to the poll results announced in Ward 02, Unit 09 and Unit 10, PDP polled 375 votes, the ruling APC got 103 votes, while ZLP polled 11 votes.
The announcement of the ward at the unit sparked jubilation among the Jegede’s supporters. They also burst into victory songs, while accompanying the candidate to his family house which is about 150 metres away from his polling booth and unit.
A former governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko, also won in his unit.
At Ward 7, Unit 20 in Ondo West Local Government Area of the state where Mimiko, who is the national leader of the ZLP, voted, ZLP scored 81, PDP scored 31, while the ruling APC polled 19 votes.
