The Independent National Electoral Commission has adjourned collation of the Presidential election results till 11am On Monday.
The Commission Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu said the adjournment was to allow the commission make special arrangement to bring the remaining State Returning Officers to Abuja.
He said the commission was confident that other states would conclude the processes of collation and bring the results to Abuja for national collation.
The Result for the Presidential election for Ekiti State was presented to the INEC Chairman who is the Chief Returning Officer by the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Health Sciences, Ila Orangun, Prof Akin Olawole Lasisi.
In the results, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu scored 210,494 to defeat 17 other candidates.
Former Vice President and candidate of the PDP scored 89,554 to come second while former Anambra state governor and candidate of the Labour Party scored 11,397, to come third.
Scores by other parties are A-69, AA-29, AAC-108, ADC-1,337, ADP-737, APGA-268, APM-46, APP-91, BP- 46, NNPP-264, NRM-131, PRP-48,SDP-2011, YPP-81, ZLP-460.
Prof Salami said elections in two polling units were cancelled for bypassing the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and over voting.
Responding to a question from the agent to the PDP, Senator Dino Melaye, Prof Ayobami Salami said “we discovered that the number of accredited voters as contained in the BVAS was more that the number of votes cast leading to over voting and therefore, the result had to be cancelled.
Results of more states are expected to arrive Abuja before the exercise resumes at 11 am on Monday.
The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Campbell Laing and the US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard as well as the National Chairman of the APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu witnessed the exercise.
Credit: thenationonlineng.net
