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ONDO STATE

Ondo: PDP Wins 19 Constituencies, APC 5

•  Armed thugs force REC to declare  results under duress
•  Navy shoot dead two of the hoodlums

James Sowole in Akure

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ondo State  has won 19 out of the 24 results of the Saturday’s House of Assembly election declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The rival All Progressive Congress (APC), which won the majority of seats in the National Assembly as well as the presidential election in the state in the March 28 election, won in only five constituencies.

The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Ondo State, Mr Olusegun Agbaje, who echoed the results of the election announced earlier at various constituencies, said results of the two constituencies in Ilaje Local Government Area of the state are still outstanding.

Agbaje at a news briefing at the INEC Headquarters, Akure, said though the Returning Officers for Ilaje Constituency I and Ilaje Constituency II were forced to declare the results under duress by armed thugs, the officers in their separate reports to the REC had declared the results of the two constituencies inconclusive.

He disclosed that men of the Forward Operational Base tF0B) of the Nigerian Navy shot dead two of the hoodlums that fomented trouble in Ilaje Local Government Area.

Agbaje stated that the violence in Ilaje Local Government led to cancellation in several polling units with a total registered voters that have effect on the final result if elections were not cancelled in those polling units.

The REC therefore stated that the INEC National Headquarters would make final pronouncement on the two constituencies.

Giving the highlights of the performances of the two major political parties, the REC said Olotu Fatai of the PDP won in Akoko North East Constituency just as Araoyinbo Olugbenga and Towase Kuti Oluwasegunota also of PDP won in Akoko North West 1 and Akoko South East respectively.

The REC also said PDP also won in Akure North, Akure South 1, Ese-Odo, Idanre and Ifedore constituencies.

Other constituencies won by PDP are Ile-Oluji/Okeigbo, Irele, Odigbo1, Odigbo II, Okitipupa I and Okitipupa II constituencies.

The other constituencies won by the PDP are Ondo East, Ondo West I, Ondo West II, Ose and Owo I.

On the other hand, the rival APC won in Akure South II, Akoko North West I, Akoko South West II, Akure South II and Owo iI constituency.

While thanking various stakeholders for their support and cooperation with the INEC, Agbaje said the commission would work very hard to consolidate and deepen the country’s democratic process in line with the Electoral Act 2010 as amended and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.