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#EkitiDecides: Segun Oni clinches 218 of 244 votes to win polling unit

The APC candidate, Biodun Oyebanji, got 15 votes, while the candidate of the PDP, Bisi Kolawole, got just three votes.

• June 18, 2022
Segun Oni
Segun Oni

The candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the ongoing Ekiti governorship election has won his polling unit in Ifaki Ekiti.

Mr Oni scored 218 out of the 244 votes cast at Unit 6 Ward 4, Ogbon Iro in Ifaki Ekiti, where he voted alongside his wife in the early hours of today.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Biodun Oyebanji, got 15 votes while the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bisi Kolawole, got just three votes.

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