Ondo Election: Mimiko declared winner

The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the incumbent, Dr. Olusegun Rahman Mimiko, as the winner of the Ondo State governorship election.

Mimiko, candidate of the Labour Party, won the election with 260,199 votes while Barrister Olusola Oke of the Peoples Democratic Party was second with 155,961 votes and Action Congress of Nigeria’s Barrister Rotimi Akeredolu third with 143,512 votes.

INEC’s Chief Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Biyi Daramola of the Federal University of Technology, declared Mimiko the winner on the basis of the results.

With his emergence as the winner of the October 20, 2012 governorship election, Mimiko becomes the first person to win a re-election in the state.