Ondo 2024: INEC commences announcement of Local Government Results
The collation is ongoing at the state collation centre located in the INEC headquarters in Akure, the state capital.
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The collation is ongoing at the state collation centre located in the INEC headquarters in Akure, the state capital.
Voting will take place in 3,933 polling units within 203 Registration Areas or wards spread across the 18 local government areas of the South-west state.
Seventeen political parties are presenting candidates in the election.
It comes on the day (1 October) Nigeria marks its 64th Independence Anniversary, with the protesters tagging it National Day of Survival to reflect the economic hardship millions of Nigerians are grappling with.
At the final collation centre in Benin, the collation officers for each of the 18 local governments in the state will announce their local governments' results.
After the results are announced at polling units, they are collated at the wards and subsequently at each of the 18 local governments in Edo State.
A total of 17 candidates are jostling to take over from Governor Godwin Obaseki, whose second and final term of four years ends in November
Over 2.2 million voters are expected to cast their ballot in the 4,519 polling units spread across the 18 local government areas.
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