South-West APC Celebrates Voters as Governor Biodun Oyebanji Sweeps All 16 LGAs to Secure Historic, Landslide Re-Election in Ekiti

The South-West zonal leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has poured heavy accolades on the electorate of Ekiti State following the historic re-election of Governor Biodun Oyebanji, framing the sweeping victory as an absolute validation of the party’s grassroots governance manual.

The celebratory political brief unzipped on Monday, June 22, 2026, sending immense waves of excitement through the ruling party’s regional networks. The statement arrives on the heels of the official declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the early hours of Sunday, June 21, which formally confirmed that the incumbent governor had successfully dismantled a decades-old electoral curse to retain his seat at the government house in Ado-Ekiti.

According to the official data sheets verified by the state’s INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Adenike Oladiji, the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Oyebanji’s field dominance was total.

Out of the 375,777 total valid votes recorded across the state’s 2,445 polling units, the APC standard-bearer secured an astonishing 319,224 votes, sweeping a clean sheet across all 16 local government areas. His closest challenger, Oluwole Oluyede of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), trailed far behind in a distant second place with 40,543 votes, while Dare Bejide of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) completed the top three slots with 12,872 votes.

The monumental significance of the victory centers on a historic structural anomaly. Since Ekiti State was created and transitioned into civil rule, no sitting governor had ever successfully transited directly into a consecutive second term—with past leaders like Niyi Adebayo, Ayo Fayose, and Kayode Fayemi all suffering dramatic defeats or forced pauses before attempting non-consecutive returns.

By capturing nearly 85 percent of the total ballot fields, Oyebanji has permanently rewritten the subnational political script.

In a statement unzipped by the South-West Zonal Publicity Secretary, Ayobami Afolabi, the party high command maintained that the landslide outcome should serve as a clear indicator of the region’s political alignment heading toward future national contests.

“The All Progressives Congress in the South-West geo-political zone commends the good people of Ekiti State for trooping out in large numbers to keep faith with the Broom Party and re-elect Governor Biodun Oyebanji,” Ayobami Afolabi declared within the party’s official brief. “This unprecedented feat is a loud, undeniable testament to the fact that our people appreciate the quality leadership being delivered on the ground by the governor and backed by the macro-development shields of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. We do not take this historic 16-LGA mandate for granted. This victory is a clear challenge for Governor Oyebanji to initialize even greater innovation and service delivery scripts across the next four years, proving that the APC remains the ultimate vehicle for subnational progress.”

The election stands out on the national calendar as the premier gubernatorial test case conducted under the newly signed 2026 Electoral Act.

While domestic civil society observers highly praised the tight coordination of over 10,000 security personnel who maintained an unyielding peaceful defensive perimeter across rural wards, opposition networks have already begun drafting friction papers.

Rival parties claimed the landslide was heavily aided by widespread voter inducement and localized Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) delays, pointing out that low youth turnout remains a critical systemic vulnerability the commission must address.

Taking to his digital networks to deliver an emotional acceptance speech, the re-elected governor, Biodun Oyebanji, humbly deflected personal praise, characterizing the result as a collective triumph for the working-class populations, civil servants, and rural farmers of the state.

As APC campaign teams across the country study the Ekiti strategy to copy its success ahead of upcoming off-cycle ballots, the total lockdown of the Fountain of Knowledge proves that proactive performance policing remains the most effective tool to secure electoral longevity across the 2026 political year.