It was a busy day in Osun as the populace came out en masse to vote for the the preferred candidate to take the seat as the Governor. Lots of conversion and planning was on ground before the election as famous Nigerian Artiste David Adedeji Adeleke a.k.a. Davido also came out to support his Uncle Adeleke of PDP.
The present Governor Rauf Aregbesola as well as the others members of APC were said to present on how to retained the political seat as APC Godfather Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was also said to be present. Prior to the to the election, a debate was organised to discus the affair of Osun however PDP Adeleke was unable to attend claiming his campaign train was held up in a village where his supporters didn’t allow him to leave as scheduled. Issued were raised from health to education, to standard of living etc. Election started as early as 7AM, the election was said to be not to subtle as they were ballot boxes were stolen and the rest but nevertheless the election came to an end and all was finish successfully.
Fuwape, who is the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), while announcing the results of the election, said that Sen. Ademola Adeleke, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored 254,698 votes while Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), scored 254, 345 votes.
However the the election was declared inconclusive because of cases of ballot boxes snatching that occurred in some polling units during the election. The returning officer mentioned the affected polling units to include Ife north, one polling unit, Ife south, two polling units, Orolu, three polling units and some part in osogbo, one polling unit. He said a total of 3498 votes were cancelled in the seven affected polling units “Based on this fact, I cannot declare anyone the winner of the election,” he said. Fuwape, however, said that the rerun of the election in the affected polling units would take place on Wednesday, Sept. 27.
Here are the details of the Osun election results:
1.Boluwaduro: APC LG:3843, PDP:3779, SDP:1766, ADP:858
2.Atakumosa West LG : APC: 5019, PDP: 5401, SDP: 1570, ADP: 718
3.Ifedayo LG: APC: 3182, PDP: 3374, SDP: 1377, ADP: 176.
4.Ede South: APC: 4512, PDP: 16693, SDP: 855, ADP:
5.Orolu LG: APC: 5442, PDP:7776 , SDP: 2043 ADP: 388, ADC:79.
6.Obokun LG: APC: 7229, PDP: 10859, SDP: 1907, ADC: 106, ADP: 663
7.Ilesha East LG: APC:9790 , PDP:8244 SDP:3620 , ADC: 188, ADP: 1275(APC)
8.Boripe LG: APC: 11655, PDP:6892, SDP: 2730,ADP:1137, ADC: 137(APC)
9.Ilesha West APC: 7251, PDP: 8286, SDP: 2408, ADC: 127, ADP: 2363(PDP)
10.Oriade LG APC: 9778, PDP: 10109, SDP: 2265 , ADC: 109, ADP: 1224
11.Irepodun LG APC: 6517, PDP: 8058, SDP: 4856, ADC: 158, ADP: 2564(PDP)
12.Ila LG APC: 8403, PDP: 8241, SDP:3134, ADC: 96, ADP: 183(APC)
13.Isokan LG APC: 7297, PDP: 9048, SDP: 3460, ADC: 56, ADP:682(PDP)
14.Odo-Otin LG APC: 9996, PDP:9879, SDP: 2941, ADC: 1034, ADP: 1112(APC)
15.Ayedaade LG: APC 10861, PDP: 9836, SDP: 2967, ADC: 145, ADP: 1645(APC)
16.Atakumosa East LG APC: 7073, PDP: 5218, SDP: 2140, ADC: 06 , ADP: 629(APC)
17. Ede North LG APC: 7025, PDP:18745, SDP: 1382 ADC: 89, ADP: 758(PDP)
18. Ifelodun LG APC: 9882, PDP:12269 , SDP: 1970, ADC: 236, ADP: 2844, (PDP)
19. Ayedire LG APC: 5474 , PDP: 5133, SDP2396:, ADC:144 , ADP:1642, (APC)
20. Ife North APC: 6527, PDP:5486, SDP:5158, ADC:94, ADP: 745, (APC)
21. Ejigbo LG APC: 14779, PDP: 4803, SDP4803:, (APC)
22. Egbedore Local Government APC: 7354, PDP:7231 , SDP: 3367
23. Ife Central Local Government: APC:6957 , PDP:3200 , SDP:20494 ADC:194, ADP:1053
24.Irewole LG: APC: 10049, PDP: 13848, SDP: 1142, ADP: 1915(PDP)
25.Olorunda LG APC: 16254, PDP: 9850, SDP:7061, ADC:335, ADP:1407, (APC)
26 Ola-Oluwa LG APC:5025 PDP: 4026 SDP:2104 ADP:2194 ADC: 1408(APC)
27. Ife South LG APC: 7223, PDP:4872, SDP: 6151, ADC:136 , ADP:561. (APC)
28. Ife East APC:8925, PDP: 6608, ADC: 237, ADP: 509, SDP: 17643
29.Iwo Local Government APC:7644 , PDP: 6122, ADP: 16, 425, ADC: 1164, SDP: 4153
30. Osogbo LG APC: 23379, PDP: 14499, SDP: 10188, ADC:413, ADP: 2478.
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