LIVE: Ekiti State Governorship Election

2018 Ekiti State governorship election.

9:55am. Ekiti has 913,334 voters, but 250,000 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) were uncollected, meaning the maximum votes exepected will be roughly 646,000. So says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

9:58am. There are 35 candidates in all, but this is clearly a two-way race between Kolapo Olusola Eleka of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

10:02am. While Fayemi was the penultimate Governor of the state and was also Minsiter of Solid Minerals Development until he resigned at the end of May to pursue his governorship re-election ambition, Eleka is currently Deputy Governor of the state and the anointed candidate of outgoing Governor Ayodele Fayose.

10:07am. In many of the polling booths, accreditation has begun.

10:23am. At Ward 11, accreditation is well in progress, and peaceful.

Ward 11

10:30am. Fayemi has just cast his vote. He arrived at his Polling Unit 009, Ward 11 in Oye LGA at exactly 10:19am.

10:35am. Voters in Oye LGA queued up peacefully for the process.

Voters at Oye LGA

10:48am. Meanwhile, Eleka could not vote as the card reader failed at his polling unit.

10:57am. Upon arriving his Ikere Ward 2 Unit 6, Eleka made his way to the polling unit for accreditation but was unable to do so, as the card reader failed.