All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate Biodun Oyebanji secured 2,379.2 per cent more votes than his counterpart in the African Democratic Congress, ADC, to clinch re-election in Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti State.
This comes as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared the incumbent governor, Biodun Oyebanji, winner of the 2026 governorship poll.
Oyebanji recorded a landslide victory after polling 319,224 votes across the state’s 16 local government areas, defeating his closest rivals, Olumayokun Oluyede of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Dare Bejide of the African Democratic Congress, ADC.
The Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Adenike Oladiji, Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, announced the result in the early hours of Sunday at the INEC headquarters on Iyin Road, Ado-Ekiti.
Declaring the outcome, Oladiji said: “Therefore, I, Adenike, am the returning officer for the 2026 Ekiti governorship election… Oyebanji Abiodun Abayomi, having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the winner and stands re-elected.”
According to the final results, the APC candidate polled 319,224 votes, while the PDP candidate garnered 40,533 votes. The ADC candidate secured 12,872 votes.
INEC disclosed that the state had 988,251 registered voters, with 384,940 accredited voters participating in the election.
Out of the 382,109 votes cast, 375,777 were declared valid.
