Osun election: Oyetola, Adeleke win polling units

Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the governorship election in the state, Sen. Ademola Adeleke, won the election at their polling units on Saturday.

Oyetola, a candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), won the election at his polling unit at Unit 2, Ward 1, LA Primary School Popo, Iragbiji in Boripe Local Government Area of Osun State, polling 545 votes out of a total 622 valid votes cast.

The Presiding Officer, Valentine Awoegbe, gave the breakdown of the results as: Accord party-one vote, AAT – one vote, ADP – five votes and YPP – one vote.

PDP came a distant second with 69 votes while eight votes were voided.

Adeleke, however, defeated Governor Oyetola, to win polling unit 009, Ward 02, Abogunde in Ede North Local Government Area.

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The PDP candidate polled 218 votes while Oyetola polled only 23 votes.

Though 15 political parties are participating in the election, the two contenders are Adeleke and Governor Oyetola.

This would be the second time the two candidates would be meeting.

Both Oyetola and Adeleke contested for the Osun governorship seat in 2018, which Oyetola won after a rerun.

After the rerun election which took place in seven units, Oyetola won seven, while Adeleke won one.

At the end of the rerun, Oyetola polled 255,505 votes while the PDP candidate scored a total of 255,023 votes.

Although Adeleke had led Oyetola with 353 votes at the end of the first round of ballots, after the rerun, Oyetola won with 482 votes.

The Star