{"id":1518,"date":"2018-07-15T13:36:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T13:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madhousereport.com\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2018-07-15T13:36:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T13:36:07","slug":"inec-declares-fayemi-winner-ekiti-gov-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=1518","title":{"rendered":"INEC Declares Fayemi Winner Of Ekiti Gov Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared\u00a0Dr. Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the July 14 governorship election.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan and Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Idowu Olayinka, said he had satisfied the requirement of the law by polling the highest lawful votes in the election.<\/p>\n<p>Olayinka made the declaration at the headquarters of Independent National Electoral Commissioner (INEC) in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Fayemi polled 197, 459 to beat Prof. Kolapo Olusola of the Peoples Democratic Party who scored 178,121 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP has, however, rejected the results, saying that the election was marred by irregularities and attacks of its members and supporters.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s agent at the collation centre, Mr Sunday Olowolafe, urged the commission to stay action on the declaration of a winner until a re-run was conducted where there were established cases of violence, vote-buying and ballot-snatching.<\/p>\n<p>Other results declared by Olayinka were Accord, 250;\u00a0 Action Alliance, 41;\u00a0 ACD, 1149; AD, 216;\u00a0 ADB, 1082;\u00a0 ADA, 107;\u00a0 AGAO, 31; ANRP, 125;\u00a0 APA, 1199; \u00a0and APDA, 464.<\/p>\n<p>Also declared were\u00a0 APGA, 70;\u00a0 ANPP, 14;\u00a0 DA, 14;\u00a0 DPC, 147;\u00a0 DPP,181;\u00a0 FJP, 42;\u00a0 GPN, 20;\u00a0 I.D, 31;, KOWA, 23; \u00a0LP, 280;\u00a0 MMN, 35;\u00a0 MPN, 23;\u00a0 NDLP, 44;\u00a0 NPC, 353\u00a0 PANDEL, 74; \u00a0and PGC, 1242.<\/p>\n<p>The rest are DPA, 632;\u00a0 PPN, 107;\u00a0 SDO, 367;\u00a0 UDP, 29;\u00a0 UPN, 33; \u00a0YDP, 31 and YPP, 49.<\/p>\n<p>Olayinka said the total valid votes in the election was 384,594 while votes cast was 403,451, with 18,857 votes invalidated.<\/p>\n<p>Fayemi is expected to take over from the incumbent, Mr Ayo Fayose, \u00a0on Oct. 16, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><em>(With additional reports from NAN<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared\u00a0Dr. Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the July 14 governorship election. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan and Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Idowu Olayinka, said he had satisfied the requirement of the law by polling the highest lawful votes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,1198,1230,113,1002,110],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-apc","tag-ayo-fayose","tag-ekiti-election","tag-inec","tag-kayode-fayemi","tag-pdp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}