{"id":948,"date":"2023-03-19T15:29:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T15:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=948"},"modified":"2023-03-19T15:29:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T15:29:18","slug":"makinde-re-elected-as-oyo-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/03\/19\/makinde-re-elected-as-oyo-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Makinde Re-elected As Oyo Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday declared the Oyo State Governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Seyi Makinde, as the winner of Saturday\u2019s governorship election in the state.<\/p>\n

The state Resident Electoral Commission, Tella Adeniran, declared Makinde the winner of the poll on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Makinde polled 563,756 votes to defeat Folarin who scored 256,685 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Makinde, who was seeking re-election, on Saturday, contested against a three-term Senator, Teslim Folarin of All Progressives Congress and Adebayo Adelabu of Accord Party, who was former deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n

The announcement of the results was monitored by the state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Tella Adeniran, alongside the state returning officer, a professor from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Olusola Kehinde, and heads of security apparatus in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the results below:<\/span><\/p>\n

Ona-Ara Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 1,212
\nAPC: 5,510
\nPDP: 17,326<\/span><\/p>\n

Ibadan Northwest Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 1,291
\nAPC: 5,947
\nPDP: 19007<\/span><\/p>\n

Ibarapa East Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 1,885
\nAPC: 7094
\nPDP: 11,125<\/span><\/p>\n

Afijio Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 1,357
\nAPC: 5,588
\nPDP: 13,139<\/span><\/p>\n

Atiba Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 1,113
\nAPC: 7,484
\nPDP: 18,389<\/span><\/p>\n

Orire Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 1,895
\nAPC: 9,216
\nPDP: 13,767<\/span><\/p>\n

Ibadan Southwest Local Government
\nA: 2,270
\nAPC: 9,491
\nPDP: 31,273<\/span><\/p>\n

Oluyole Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 1,386
\nAPC: 6,592
\nPDP: 21,700<\/span><\/p>\n

Atisbo Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 1,188
\nAPC: 6,955
\nPDP: 9,199<\/span><\/p>\n

Saki East Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 188
\nAPC: 5,519
\nPDP: 8,374<\/span><\/p>\n

Surulere Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 271
\nAPC: 8,882
\nPDP: 15,554<\/span><\/p>\n

Itewiwaju Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 2036
\nAPC: 4,597
\nPDP: 8034<\/span><\/p>\n

Ogo Oluwa Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 50
\nAPC: 5,570
\nPDP: 10,930<\/span><\/p>\n

Irepo Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 388
\nAPC: 9,785
\nPDP: 7,193<\/span><\/p>\n

Olorunsogo Local Government
\nAccord: 998
\nAPC: 4,851
\nPDP: 5,838<\/span><\/p>\n

Ibadan Northeast Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 1,564
\nAPC: 8,486
\nPDP: 29,396<\/span><\/p>\n

Ogbomosho South Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 10
\nAPC: 8,257
\nPDP: 17,693<\/span><\/p>\n

Ibadan Southeast Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 1,846
\nAPC: 9,147
\nPDP: 23,585<\/span><\/p>\n

Ibarapa North Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 563
\nAPC: 5,678
\nPDP: 10,845<\/span><\/p>\n

Ibarapa Central Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 1,455
\nAPC: 6,287
\nPDP: 10,491<\/span><\/p>\n

Oyo West Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 431
\nAPC: 7,599
\nPDP: 15,084<\/span><\/p>\n

Oyo East Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 571
\nAPC: 6,999
\nPDP: 15,751<\/span><\/p>\n

Ogbomosho North Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 562
\nAPC: 10,661
\nPDP: 20,387<\/span><\/p>\n

Ido Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 822
\nAPC: 7,865
\nPDP: 19,284<\/span><\/p>\n

Kajola Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 1,710
\nAPC: 9,523
\nPDP: 13,562<\/span><\/p>\n

Lagelu Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 886
\nAPC: 10,661
\nPDP: 19,104<\/span><\/p>\n

Ibadan North Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 2,120
\nAPC: 11,883
\nPDP: 39,658<\/span><\/p>\n

Iseyin Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 501
\nAPC: 9,694
\nPDP: 25,740<\/span><\/p>\n

Egbeda Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 3072
\nAPC: 7,377
\nPDP: 30,444<\/span><\/p>\n

Saki West Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 607
\nAPC: 13,753
\nPDP: 17,452<\/span><\/p>\n

Ore-lope Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 1602
\nAPC: 7077
\nPDP: 6,483<\/span><\/p>\n

Iwajowa Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 269
\nAPC: 6,441
\nPDP: 9029<\/span><\/p>\n

Akinyele Local Government<\/span><\/p>\n

Accord: 1287
\nAPC: 9,445
\nPDP: 28,920<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday declared the Oyo State Governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Seyi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}