Nigeria, June 22 -- The African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidate, Dare Bejide, on Sunday rejected the outcome of Saturday's governorship election in Ekiti State.

The INEC Chief Returning Officer and Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Adenike Oladiji, had, in the early hours of Sunday, declared Governor Biodun Oyebanji the winner of the election.

She said Mr Oyebanji polled 319,224 votes to defeat the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Wole Oluyede, who finished a distant second with 40,543 votes.

She stated that Mr Bejide scored 12,872 votes to finish third in the election, which candidates from 14 political parties contested.

However, in his immediate reaction to the result, the ADC candi...