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Governor Biodun Oyebanji of Ekiti State.
By Dayo Johnson
The All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, won the Ekiti State governorship election and five of the six bye-elections held in Ondo, Enugu, Nasarawa, Kano, Kebbi and Rivers states.
This was as winner of the governorship election in Ekiti State, Governor Biodun Oyebanji ofa APC promised to “work harder and smarter” to serve the people after his landslide victory.
Oyebanji polled 319,224 votes to defeat Peoples Democratic Party’s, PDP’s Dr Wole Oluyede, who scored 40,543 votes.
ADC’s Ambassador Dare Bejide came third with 12,872 votes.
Like Oyebanji, other APC candidates in six bye-elections held simultaneously with the Ekiti poll emerged victorious in Enugu, Nasarawa, Ondo, Kano and Kebbi but lost in Rivers to the PDP.
Unprecedented outcome
Addressing journalists in Ado Ekiti, after his re-election, Oyebanji described the outcome as “an unprecedented electoral outcome” in Ekiti and Nigeria.
The governor said the
