Olushola Omogbehin
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has declared Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State the winner of Saturday’s governorship election.
He was declared winner by the State Returning Officer, Joshua Ogunwole, at the INEC State Collation Centre in Osogbo on Sunday morning after results from the state’s 30 local government areas were collated.
Governor Adeleke who contested on the platform of the Accord Party scored 511,067 votes to defeat his closest rival, Bola Oyebamiji of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who polled 444,815 votes.
Defeating his closest rival with 66,252 votes, Adeleke’s victory gives him another four-year term as governor of the state.
According to INEC, Najeem Salaam of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) who came third, scored 17,180 votes.
A total of 2,339,544 voters were registered for the election and 1,010,684 accredited.
Of the votes cast, 985,079 were valid, while 20,721 were rejected, bringing the total number of votes cast to 1,005,800.
