ODIEC declares APC winner of 18 seats in Ondo LG election

The Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission (ODIEC) has declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of all the 18 chairmanship seats in Saturday’s local government election in the state.

The Commission’s Chairman, Prof. Yomi Dinakin, while announcing the election result on Sunday evening, said that the party also won 194 councillorship seats out of 198, while the results in the four remaining wards were declared inconclusive.

So far, only seven of 14 registered political parties participated in the exercise and there was no contest in five local governments.

Dinakin, who declared the APC candidates winner of the election in the five local government areas, noted that it was in line with the State Electoral Act.