The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has uploaded over 54.54 percent of the results from the Ondo gubernatorial election on its Result Viewing (IReV) Portal.

Tribune Online reports that voters across the 18 local government areas of Ondo State turned out en masse on Saturday to elect a new governor to pilot the affairs of the state for the next four years.

In the latest development, Tribune Online?s check at the time of this report revealed that 54.54 percent of the results had been uploaded.

This figure represents the results from 2,145 polling units out of 3,933 units across the state.

As of the time of this report, the results from none of the 18 local governments in the state have been fully updated.

Meanwhile, The governorship candidate of the People?s Democratic Party (PDP) Agboola Ajayi has been declared the winner of his polling unit.

Agboola, who voted at his at Apoi Ward II, Unit 004 in Kiribo, Ese Odo council area, polled 194 votes to defeat his main rival, Governor Lucky Ayedatiwa of the All Progressives Congress who scored 003 votes.

Similarly, the PDP deputy governorship candidate, Hon. Festus Akingbaso, has delivered his Polling Unit 8, Ward 2, Alade Okun, Alade-Idanre for his principal, Agboola Ajayi.

Akingbaso delivered the unit with a landslide victory, scoring 187 votes to the APC's 46 votes.

The Labour Party (LP), the Action Alliance (AA) and the PLP got one vote each at the unit.

The unit?s votes were counted amid fears that the community was surrounded by hoodlums reportedly determined to carry the ballot box away.

It took the intervention of armed roving policemen who fired several shits in the air to scare the alleged hoodlums away. (Pieced together from reports by Saturday Tribune and The Nation)

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