{"id":5219,"date":"2012-10-21T11:21:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T10:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=5219"},"modified":"2012-10-21T13:27:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T12:27:17","slug":"mimiko-wins-ondo-guber-election-beats-akeredolu-oke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/mimiko-wins-ondo-guber-election-beats-akeredolu-oke\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimiko Wins Ondo Guber Election, Beats Akeredolu, Oke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Segun Mimiko has defeated Rotimi Akeredolu of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Chief Olusola Oke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, his two major opponents to win the Ondo State Governorship elections.<\/p>\n<p>According to the summary figures declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission\u2019s Chief Returning Officer for the election, Prof.<\/p>\n<p>Biyi Daramola of Federal University of Technology, Akure, in a live telecast at the state office of the agency, Mimiko scored a total of 260,199 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Daramola, who read the results for five minutes, said Mimiko was followed by Mr. Olusola Oke of the Peoples Democratic Party, with 155961 votes; and Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of the Action Congress of Nigeria, with 143512 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Early results had showed him dusting his two major opponents in their respective homes in the gubernatorial election in Ondo State.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Mimiko, who stood as candidate of the Labour Party (LP), defeated Rotimi Akeredolu, the candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Akeredolu\u2019s polling unit at GRA Unit 6, Owo by 144 votes to 139. Akeredolu was also defeated at the ward level by Mimiko who took first position with<\/p>\n<p>420 votes and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Chief Olusola Oke, who took second position with 292 votes, leaving Akeredolu with 287 votes.<\/p>\n<p>With the result, Mimiko would be the first Governor of the new Ondo State to be re-elected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Segun Mimiko has defeated Rotimi Akeredolu of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Chief Olusola Oke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, his two major opponents to win the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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