AFTER months of anticipation, permutations and politicking, the Ondo State governorship election is finally upon us.
Voters would on Saturday decide who governs the state for the next four years.
Incumbent Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) faces an uphill task to return for another term.
He is challenged by the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Eyitayo Jegede and deputy, Agboola Ajayi, who is the candidate of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP).
In all there will be 17 political parties on the ballot papers according to the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC).
In 2016, Governor Akeredolu polled a total of 224, 842 votes to defeat the PDP candidate, Jegede, who scored 150, 380 votes, while Chief Olusola Oke, then of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), polled 126, 889 votes.
The Numbers
– Number of Registered Voters 1,822,346
– Percentage of Registered voters to population…39%
– Number of PVCs collected…1,478,460
– Percentage of PVCs collection…81%
– Number of PVCs not collected…343,866
– Percentage of the population eligible to vote (those who collected PVC)…31.6%
– Number of Polling Units…3 009
– Number of LGs prone to Violence…5
– Number of LGs with a high incidence of voter inducement…6


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