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Group commends INEC over Ekiti
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it is obvious that the wishes of the people have prevailed especially at a critical period in ekiti he said2 the peoples democratic party pdp candidate and current deputy governor prof. kolapo olusola scored 178121 votes1 the determination displayed by the people on saturday was unprecedented and unbelievable1 i saw the number of people coming out from their villages and homes contrary to the rumour of riot and crisis being spread across the state a few days to the election1 the alliance for credible elections is elated with the turn-out for the saturdays ekiti governorship election and commended stakeholders for the transparency of the electoral process1 former minister of mines and solid minerals development and candidate of the all progressives congress dr kayode fayemi was declared winner of the election after securing 197459 votes1 dr omilusi mike an official of the alliance on sunday said i want to sincerely commend the turnout of the people from across the nooks and crannies of ekiti to vote for their chosen candidate1 other results declared by the chief returning officer for the election prof. idowu olayinka include accord 250 action alliance 41 acd 1149 ad 216 adb 1082 ada 107 agao 31 anrp 125 apa 1199 and apda 4641 also declared were apga 70 anpp 14 da 14 dpc 147 dpp181 fjp 42 gpn 20 i.d 31 kowa 23 lp 280 mmn 35 mpn 23 ndlp 44 npc 353 pandel 74 and pgc 12421 the rest are dpa 632 ppn 107 sdo 367 udp 29 upn 33 ydp 31 and ypp 491 the total valid votes in the election was 384594 while total votes cast was 403451 with 18857 votes invalidated1 nan reports that the election held in 2195 polling units spread across 177 wards in the 16 local government areas of ekiti while 35 candidates contested.nan1