THE governorship election in Ondo State was one election that generated heat not only in the polity and more so in the south west.

Some industrialists on Sunday advised the re-elected governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, to take urgent steps to woo investors to exploit the potentials of the state in full.

The outcome of yesterday’s gubernatorial election may have drawn a curtain on plans for regional integration by the Action Congress of Nigeria , ACN, the dominant political party in the region, but the proportion of votes mustered by the victorious incumbent is troubling.

ABUJA- SENATE President David Mark Sunday congratulated the incumbent governor of Ondo State and the Governor-elect in the Saturday gubernatorial election, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko.

ABUJA- THE National Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has accepted defeat and congratulated the Governor-elect in the Saturday Ondo State gubernatorial election, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko.

BY EMMAN OVUAKPORIE ABUJA-SPEAKER  of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Sunday, congratulated Dr. Olusegun Mimiko over his re-election as Governor of Ondo State for a second term. In a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Malam Imam Imam, Tambuwal noted that Mimiko’s victory was a manifestation of […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated Dr Olesegun Mimiko, the declared winner of yesterday’s governorship election in Ondo state.

In a tweet, by Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, the President congratulated him on his victory in the election just as he commended the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and security agencies.

The Tweet:

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said Saturday’s governorship election in Ondo State was marred by irregularities and widespread violence that either scared away many voters or significantly affected voting in many polling units.

Governor Segun Mimiko was Saturday, on course for a historic re-election after first results showed him dusting his two major opponents in their respective homes in the gubernatorial election in Ondo State.

Results that emerged from Ondo State Governorship election have shown that the incumbent governor and Labour Party candidate, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, has defeated his arch rival, Rotimi Akeredolu of the Action Congress of Nigeria in Akeredolu’s ward.