
BREAKING: PDP’S ADELEKE DECLARED WINNER OF OSUN STATE GUBERNETORIAL ELECTION
The Peoples Democratic Party’s senator Ademola Adeleke has been declared the winner of the Osun governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Adeleke won the election with a total of 403,371 votes, defeating the incumbent, Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress, who had 375,027 votes in a heavily contested race, according to Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, the returning officer and vice chancellor of the University of Lagos.
The PDP won 17 of the state’s 30 local government areas, while the APC took 13 of them, according to the total votes tallied by the electoral umpire.
The PDP won in Ede North, Ede South, Ifelodun, Boluwaduro, Egbedore, Odo Otin, Osogbo, Ila, Atakumosa West, Olorunda, Ilesa West, Obokun, Oriade, Orolu, Ife North, Irepodun, and Ejigbo LGAs.
The APC, on the other hand, won in Boripe, Ilesa East, Ayedire, Ifedayo, Ife Central, Ayedaade, Iwo, Olaoluwa, Isokan, Atakumosa East, Ife South, Ife Central, and Ife East LGAs.
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