The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ademola Adeleke in the early hours of Sunday, July 17, emerged the winner of Osun State governorship election.
Adeleke beat his closest rival, Governor Gboyega Oyetola, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to emerge winner.
The election was held across the 30 local government areas of the state amid tight security.
The results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission registered that out of the votes counted across the state, Mr Adeleke received 403,371, unseating the incumbent who scored 375,027 votes, while Labour Party scored 2,729 votes, Peoples Gazette reports.
Mr Adeleke won at Osogbo Local Government Area, receiving 30,401 votes out of the total 54,997 cast votes, while Mr Oyetola garnered 22,952 votes. He also made inroads into other opposition strongholds, including in Ile-Ife, where he pulled a surprise in Ife North Local Government Area.
The candidate’s victory was also buttressed by the inability of the ruling APC to garner as many votes as it anticipated from Iyiola Omisore’s stronghold in Ile-Ife. Mr. Omisore used his popularity in Ile-Ife to deliver a slim victory for Mr Oyetola in 2018 after his third-party candidacy forced a run-off between the APC and PDP.
Mr Adeleke, a former senator who was the PDP’s governorship candidate in the 2018 election, again, emerged as the party’s gubernatorial choice on March 10, after slugging it out with Dotun Babayemi.
Adeleke and Oyetola had sought the job in 2018. The election was initially declared inconclusive by INEC, and a rerun was slated on 27 September 2018. Mr Oyetola was declared the winner after the run-off.
At the final count, Mr Adeleke polled 255,023, losing with less than 500 votes to Mr Oyetola, who scored 255,505 and was declared as elected.
Mr Adeleke challenged the result but the Supreme Court affirmed Mr Oyetola’s victory on July 5, 2019.
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