The candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, is already leading in the Ekiti State governorship election with 87,914 votes while the PDP has 70,625 votes in the 8 LG results released by INEC officials.

Fayemi won 7 out of 8 local government areas where results had been tallied  with a margin of 17,289 votes. Ekiti has 16 LGAs.

So far, results tallied are as follows:  Mr Fayemi won in Ilejemeje (4153 to 3937), Moba (11837 to 8520), Irepodun-Ifelodun (13,869 to 11,456), Oye (14,995 to 11,271), Ido-Osi (12,342 to 11,145), Ijero (14,192 to 11,077) and Gbonyin (11,498 to 8,027).

Olusola Eleka of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won in Efon Alaye local government (5,192 to 5028).

Earlier, INEC had dismissed the purported results of the election posted on the social media, saying the figures did not emerge from the commission.

The Ekiti Resident Electoral Commissioner  (REC),  Prof.  AbdulGaniyu Raji, made the clarification in a statement issued on Saturday evening.

“Our attention has been drawn to illegal release of results of the 2018 governorship election in Ekiti State on the social media.

” Consequently, we wish to inform the general public  that the Ekiti state governorship election   is still ongoing.

“Counting of ballots is still in progress, collation of results is equally going on in some areas.

” All the floating news in the social media in respect of the results  of the election should be discountenanced by the public.

“The announcement of the election result would be made by Independent  National Electoral Commission  (INEC) at the appropriate time,” Raji said in the statement.

NAN also reports that a giant electronic screen board had already been mounted on a pavilion to display the results of the election  held in  2,195 polling units spread across 177 wards in the 16 local government areas of Ekiti.