Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has won the Ondo State governorship election held on Saturday.

The incumbent governor, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, swept to victory by winning 15 of the 18 local government areas in the state.

Akeredolu was the candidate of  the All Progressives Congress got 292,830 votes, while Mr Eyitayo Jegede of the Peoples Democratic Party and Mr Agboola Ajayi of the Zenith Labour Party came second and third in the election with 195,791 and 69,127 votes respectively.

The Independent National Electoral Commission’s Returning Officer and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Prof. Idowu Olayinka, made the announcement at about 3 p.m. on Sunday, after all the results across the state’s 18 local government areas had been collated.

Akeredolu had also defeated  Jegede in the 2016 governorship election. Then,  Ajayi was Akeredolu’s running mate.