Mimiko looks set to win

Ondo State Governor and Labour Party candidate, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, looks set to win a second term, going by results trickling in from various polling units across the state. Mimiko had a good lead ahead of his arch-opponents - Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of the Action Congress of Nigeria and Mr. Olusola Oke of the Peoples Democratic Party - in the election. If he wins, he would have broken the jinx about the inability of his democratically elected predecessors to clinch a second term. These include Chief Michael Ajasin, Chief Adebayo Adefarati, Dr. Olusegun Agagu and Mr. Bamidele Olumilua. Of the lot, only Agagu got a second term but this was truncated as he was removed by the election tribunal and the appeal court, which declared Mimiko the winner of the 2007

election.