The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the governorship rereun election in Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola, on Thursday emerged victorious with 1,160 votes.
Oyetola had beaten the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Ademola Adeleke, who had scored 325 votes in the election.
Prof. Joseph Afuwape, the Chief Returning Officer for the governorship election, had declared Oyetola winner.
Fuwape, who is the Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), said the 1,160 votes scored by Oyetola in the rerun election in addition to his Saturday’ votes of 254 , 345 gave him a total votes of 255, 505 to defeat Adeleke .
He said that Adeleke’s result of 325 in the rerun election in addition to 254,698 he scored on Saturday , gave him a total votes of 255, 023 to come second.
Fuwape said that Oyetola won the election by 482 votes.
He said 1, 678, 985 voters were registered while 775,687 were accredited during the election.
Fuwape added that 721,621 were valid votes, while 47,874 were rejected, adding that 769,495 were the votes cast during the election.
” That Gboyega Isiaka Oyetola of APC, having satisfied the requirement of the law and scored the highest number of votes, is hereby declared the winner and returned elected, ‘’ Fuwape said.
In the supplementary election in Osogbo Local Government Council, the APC garnered 299 votes to beat PDP which had 165 while the Social Democratic Party (SDP) had one.
The APC also won in Orolu Local Government Council with 280 votes beating PDP’s 122 while SDP had one vote.
In Ife South Local Government Council, the APC triumphed with 455 votes compared with PDP’s 36 while SDP had two.
The APC also won in Ife North Local Government Council with 126 votes to triumph over PDP’s two votes.
Although Adeleke had in Saturday’s governorship election polled 254,698 votes to beat Oyetola, Fuwape declared the poll inconclusive because of cases of ballot boxes snatching in some polling units.
He cited the affected polling units to include Ife North (one polling unit), Ife South (two polling units), Orolu (three polling units) and Osogbo (one polling unit).
supplementary election results
1. Osogbo LG Unit 17, ward 5
Number of registered voters: 885
Number of accredited voters: 473
APC: 299
PDP: 165
Total votes cast:473
Total valid votes: 467
Rejected votes: 6
2. Orolu LG ward A, unit 1 and 4, and ward 9, unit 3
Total number of registered voters: 947
Total number of accredited voters: 419
APC 280
PDP:122
Total valid votes: 411
Rejected votes: 8
Total number of votes cast: 419
3. Ife South LG ward 7 , unit 12 and 10
Number of registered voters: 1314
Number of accredited voters: 515
APC: 455
PDP: 36
Total valid votes: 502
Rejected votes: 13
Total votes cast: 515
4. Ife North LG ward 2, unit 2
Number of registered voters: 353
Number of accredited voters: 133
APC: 126
PDP: 02
Valid votes: 129
Rejected votes: 04
Total votes cast: 133
Total votes scored by APC and PDP in the four affected LGs:
APC: 1,160
PDP:325
APC won by 482 votes.
