13th April, 2015
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara was on Sunday re-elected for a second term after defeating 15 other candidates at the just concluded House of Assembly and Governorship Election in the state.
The Returning Officer, Prof. Musbau Akanji, Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Minna, announced the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate as winner, having fulfilled all conditions.
Musbau said Ahmed polled 295,832 votes to defeat his closest rival, Sen. Simeon Ajibola of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 115,220 votes
According to Akanji, Gov. Ahmed has the highest number of votes cast in the election and the highest votes in all the 16 local government areas of the state.
He said for a candidate to emerge a winner, he must score the highest number of votes and has 25 per cent in at least two third of the local government areas.
The Labour party (LP) candidate, Dr Mike Omotosho, came third with 2,973 votes.
Akanji said I,171,561 voters registered in the state while 455,397 were accredited for the governorship election.
He said there were 419,633 valid votes while 14,721 were rejected and 434,354 were cast in the election.
The scores as announced by the INEC returning officer showed that Governor Ahmed won in all the 16 local government areas of the state as shown below:
Isin LGA: APC, 5525, PDP 4,202
Oke Ero: APC 6631, PDP 3815
Ekiti: APC 6269, PDP 4398
Offa: APC 18,569, PDP 4,778
Oyun: APC 10,277, PDP 4916
Asa: APC 18363, PDP 6186
Ilorin South: APC 21220, PDP 11,439
Patigi: APC 16335, PDP 3033
Irepodun: APC 14970, PDP 7380
Edu: APC 22,963, PDP 9,229
Ilorin East: APC 25700, PDP 10,923
Ifeoldun: APC 25,528, PDP 8,086
Moro: APC 16,614, PDP 6,330
Ilorin West: APC 53, 284, PDP 18,196
Baruten: APC 18,734, PDP 9,374
Kaiama: APC 14,850, PDP 2,935.