By Seyi Makinde, the PDP candidate for governor of Oyo State, was proclaimed the victor of the state’s governorship election on Sunday by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Adebayo Adelabu of the Accord Party received 38,357 votes, while Teslim Folarin of the All Progressive Congress received 256,685 votes, giving Seyi Makinde a victory margin of 563,756 votes.
The state’s returning officer, Olusola Kehinde, pronounced Seyi Makinde the victor of the election after she met all legal requirements.
Folarin finished in second place by winning two local governments, Irepo and Ore-lope, while Makinde won 31 of the state’s 33 local government districts.
Makinde, who was running for re-election on Saturday, faced off against Adebayo Adelabu of the Accord Party, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, and three-term senator Folarin.
See the results as they were revealed by INEC below:
1) Local government of Ona-Ara
Accord: 1,212
APC: 5,510
PDP: 17,326
2) Ibadan Northwest Local Government
Accord: 1,291
APC: 5,947
PDP: 19007
3) Ibarapa East Local Government
Accord: 1,885
APC: 7094
PDP: 11,125
4) Afijio Local Government
Accord: 1,357
APC: 5,588
PDP: 13,139
5) Atiba Local Government
Accord: 1,113
APC: 7,484
PDP: 18,389
6) Orire Local Government
Accord: 1,895
APC: 9,216
PDP: 13,767
7) Ibadan Southwest Local Government
A: 2,270
APC: 9,491
PDP: 31,273
8) Oluyole Local Government
Accord: 1,386
APC: 6,592
PDP: 21,700.
9) Atisbo Local Government
Accord: 1,188
APC: 6,955
PDP: 9,199
10) Saki East Local Government
Accord: 188
APC: 5,519
PDP: 8,374
11) Surulere Local Government
Accord: 271
APC: 8,882
PDP: 15,554
12) Itewiwaju Local Government
Accord: 2036
APC: 4,597
PDP: 8034
13) Ogo Oluwa Local Government
Accord: 50
APC: 5,570
PDP: 10,930
14) Irepo Local Government
Accord: 388
APC: 9,785
PDP: 7,193
15) Olorunsogo Local Government
Accord: 998
APC: 4,851
PDP: 5,838
16) Ibadan Northeast Local Government
Accord: 1,564
APC: 8,486
PDP: 29,396
17) Ogbomosho South Local Government
Accord: 10
APC: 8,257
PDP: 17,693
18) Ibadan Southeast Local Government
Accord: 1,846
APC: 9,147
PDP: 23,585
19) Ibarapa North Local Government
Accord: 563
APC: 5,678
PDP: 10,845.
Accord: 1,564
APC: 8,486
PDP: 29,396
17) Ogbomosho South Local Government
Accord: 10
APC: 8,257
PDP: 17,693
18) Ibadan Southeast Local Government
Accord: 1,846
APC: 9,147
PDP: 23,585
19) Ibarapa North Local Government
Accord: 563
APC: 5,678
PDP: 10,845.
20) Ibarapa Central Local Government
Accord: 1,455
APC: 6,287
PDP: 10,491
21) Oyo West Local Government
Accord: 431
APC: 7,599
PDP: 15,084
22) Oyo East Local Government
Accord: 571
APC: 6,999
PDP: 15,751
23) Ogbomosho North Local Government
Accord: 562
APC: 10,661
PDP: 20,387
24) Ido Local Government
Accord: 822
APC: 7,865
PDP: 19,284
25) Kajola Local Government
Accord: 1,710
APC: 9,523
PDP: 13,562
26) Lagelu Local Government
Accord: 886
APC: 10,661
PDP: 19,104.
27) Ibadan North Local Government
Accord: 2,120
APC: 11,883
PDP: 39,658
28) Iseyin Local Government
Accord: 501
APC: 9,694
PDP: 25,740
29) Egbeda Local Government
Accord: 3072
APC: 7,377
PDP: 30,444
30) Saki West Local Government
Accord: 607
APC: 13,753
PDP: 17,452
31) Ore-lope Local Government
Accord: 1602
APC: 7077
PDP: 6,483
32) Iwajowa Local Government
Accord: 269
APC: 6,441
PDP: 9029
33) Akinyele Local Government
Accord: 1287
APC: 9,445
PDP: 28,920.
According to the results of the 33 local governments in the South-West states, Makinde received 563,756 votes, defeating his nearest competitor who received 256,685.
Seyi Makinde Abiodun of the PDP, having satisfied the legal condition, is hereby pronounced the winner and is returned elected by the Returning Officer, Prof Adebayo Simeon on this day, March 19, 2023, according to INEC’s state returning officer, Prof Adebayo Simeon.
Makinde was the last member of the PDP G5 or Integrity Group to hold elections before Saturday.
The eight-year-old governors of Abia, Enugu, and Benue, Okezie Ikpeazu, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, and Samuel Ortom, have all already lost their bids for the Senate, while Nyesom Wike, who is serving his second term as governor of the Rivers, chose not to run for any elected position.
Before the election on March 18, Seyi Makinde was the center of attention after three of his compatriots were defeated. Nonetheless, with his proclamation as the winner by INEC, Seyi Makinde survived the defeat experienced by other G5 members.
On Saturday, elections for governor were held in 28 of Nigeria’s 36 states. A court case compelled INEC to bring the gubernatorial and state assembly elections forward, which resulted in them taking place a week later than originally planned.
Anambra, Bayelsa, Edo, Ekiti, Imo, Kogi, Osun, and Ondo are eight of the 36 states that have “off-season” governorship elections because of legal disputes and court rulings.
The 28 states that held governorship elections on March 18 are Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Gombe, Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe, and Zamfara.
17 outgoing governors, who were inaugurated on May 29, 2015, are in the final weeks of their constitutional two-term limits of eight years, while 11 serving governors, including Seyi Makinde, sought reelection.
