Jubilation erupted across Osun State on Sunday morning as Senator Ademola Adeleke of the Accord Party was declared winner of the Osun State governorship election.
In a video that has since gone viral, the Governor-elect was seen dancing at his residence shortly after INEC announced the results.
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that INEC Returning Officer, Professor Joshua Olalekan Ogunwole announced the results around 7:49am.
Ogunwole who is the current Vice-Chancellor, Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), supervised the final aggregation of results from the 30 LGAs.
According to the final collation announced on Form EC8E, Adeleke polled a total of 511,067 votes to defeat his closest rival, Bola Oyebamiji of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who scored 444,815 votes.
Meanwhile, the African Democratic Congress governorship candidate in Osun State, Najeem Salaam, had 17,180 votes.
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👉 JOIN GISTSMATE WHATSAPP CHANNELThe total number of registered voters is 2,339,544, while total numbers of accredited voters: 1,010,684; The total valid votes: 985,079.
Based on the collated local government results, Adeleke secured victories in 19 of the state’s 30 local government areas, while the APC candidate secured 11 councils.
Security agencies said the election was largely peaceful with heavy deployment across voting centers.
With this win, Adeleke is set to be sworn in for his second term as the Governor of Osun State.
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