Oyebanji, a candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), polled 319,224 votes to defeat his closest rivals in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, Mayokun Oluyede, and African Democratic Congress, Dare Bejide.
Oluyede garnered 40, 543 votes, while Bejide polled 12,872.
The Returning Officer for the election, Adenike Oladiji, a professor and the Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Technology, Akure, while declaring Oyebanji the winner Sunday morning, said: “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.”
Responding to his victory, the governor wrote in his Facebook account: “The voice of the people has reverberated from every part of our great state, and the message is clear. I am deeply humbled by the scale of this victory. Securing a clean sweep across all 16 local government areas, and 85 per cent of the popular vote, is a humbling vote of confidence from Ekiti Kete.”
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