The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari, is coasting to clear victory in Oyo State. He beat his closest rival and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Goodluck Jonathan, in the results of 14 of the 15 local governments so far announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Buhari defeated Jonathan in Ona-Ara, the local government of the PDP’s governorship candidate, Teslim Folarin and Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Jumoke Akinjide by over 5,000 votes. The councils are Atisbo, Saki East, Iwajowa, Oyo West, Ibarapa East, Atiba, Iddo, Oluyole and Kajola. Others are Afijio, Oorelope , Irepo and Iseyin. But Jonathan won by 400 votes in Itesiwaju Local Government, where the senator representing Oyo North, Hosea Agboola, hails from. Results of the National Assembly elections are yet to be announced.The Nation
