Dr Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the Ekiti State governorship election conducted on Saturday.
Fayemi defeated his closest rival, Professor Kolapo Olusola-Eleka of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The results announced Sunday morning by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) saw the APC candidate winning in 12 out of the 16 local government areas of the state.
Announcement of the results commenced about 3am, and was still on as at 5.30am.
Fayemi polled 178,913 while Olusola-Eleka scored 178,114 votes.
The election witnessed a large turnout of voters and early arrival of the ad hoc staff and supervisors of INEC at polling units.
The APC candidate, a former governor of the state, started coasting to victory early, as he led in many of the results declared at the polling centres not long after voting went underway.
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