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The final result announcement is being held at the INEC headquarters in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.
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Ekiti has 1,059,360 registered voters, but only 1,028,929 of them who collected Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) were eligible to participate in the election.
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The turnout for the election in which candidates of 14 parties are jostling for the governorship seat was impressive in some areas, while it was low in several other places.
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Over one million Ekiti voters will participate in the poll, which will be held in 2,445 Polling Units (PUs) spread across the 177 wards of the 16 Local Government Areas in the South-west state.
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The collation is ongoing at the state collation centre located in the INEC headquarters in Akure, the state capital.
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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.
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Seventeen political parties are presenting candidates in the election.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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