Results from the various units and wards of the 16 local governments are currently being collated after voters trooped out on Saturday to cast their votes in the 2026 governorship election in Ekiti state.
Already, some of the polling units have returned their results while others are still on their ways.
The Independent National Electoral Commission’s iREV the portal that displays outcomes of the election results has so far released about 87% of the total results as at 7:55pm on Saturday.
Majority of the results declared by INEC already have shown that that the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Biodun Oyebanji, is leading by a wide margin.
NPO Report observed elections results from several polling units uploaded on iREV portal which showed other opposition parties candidates trailing heavily behind Oyebanji.
At PU001 Opposite High Court in Ado ‘J’ Okesa Ward in Ado-Ekiti, APC recorded 126 votes as against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which recorded 20 votes while the African Democratic Congress (ADC) gathered only four votes.
In the same vein, the APC swept the poll at PUOO3, Ilebaye Maternity Oke-Odo, Igede Ward II, Irepodun/Ifelodun LGA where they gathered 228 votes.
PDP came second with 39 votes while the ADC recorded five votes.
At the APC Situation Room as at 9:00pm, Oyebanji was reported to be leading with over 250,000 votes.
Although, some criticisms have trailed the exercise with some of the opposition candidates alleging vote-buying, violence, and other forms of intimidations, observers have come up with differing opinions on the exercise.
The Collation Centre is expected to go live any moment from now where results in each of the local government areas will be announced leading to the final declaration of the eventual winner.
There are indications that the declaration of the final winner may run into the early hours of Sunday as INEC officials put together the logistics for the final declaration.
More to follow….