The Incumbent Governor and candidate of the Accord Party(AP), Ademola Adeleke, is set to be declared the winner of the Osun State governorship election held on Saturday, having has won 19 local government areas out of the 30 in the state.
Penpushing reports that the final results by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) showed that his close rival Bola Oyebamiji of the All Progressives Congress (APC), clinched 11 local government.
The review of a final tally of the results is still being done as of the time of filing this report, however, Adeleke has over 60,000 more votes than his closest challenger, while tally of the announced results shows that Adeleke has a total of 511,067 votes and Oyebamiji has 444,811 votes, a difference of 66,256 votes.
Penpushing further report that the governorship candidate of African Democratic Congress (ADC) Najeem Salaam recorded a distant third with 17,180 votes, based on tally of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) results.
The figures represent the aggregate results from all 30 local government areas of the state, as supporters await Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC’s) returning officer to officially declare Adeleke winner of the poll.
Penpushing also reports that Adeleke recorded particularly wide margins in several of his strongholds, including Ede North, where he polled 35,427 votes against Oyebamiji’s 10,283, and Ede South, where he recorded 26,188 votes against 6,219, as well as Osogbo where he polled 36,480 votes, while Oyebamiji polled 30,474.
The incumbent equally recorded significant victories in Ife East, with 27,201 votes against 18,600; Iwo, 27,085 against 19,660; Egbedore, 19,278 against 11,194; and Oriade, 21,343 against 14,863.
Penpushing report that Oyebamiji, however, won in 11 local government areas, including Irewole, where he scored 29,972 votes against Adeleke’s 10,934, as well as in Boripe, Atakunmosa East, Atakunmosa West, Ife South, Ilesa East, Irepodun, Isokan, Obokun, Ola-Oluwa and Olorunda.
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