The Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) today declared
incumbent Osun State Governor Rauf
Aregbesola as the winner of
Saturday’s governorship poll in the
state.
According to the INEC, Aregbesola of
the All Progressives Congress (APC)
won in 22 out of 30 local government
areas of the state to defeat his main
challenger, Senator Iyiola Omisore of
the Peoples Democracy Party (PDP)
who won in eight local government
areas.
Omisore’s running mate, Obada,
PDP chairman lose in their polling
units
Leading lights of the APC had on
Thursday obtained an interlocutory
injunction from an Ile-Ife high court
presided over by Justice A.
Abdulkarim to restrain the inspector-
general of police and the director-
general of the State Security Service
(SSS) from tampering with their
fundamental human rights pending
the determination of the main suit.
Initial failure of INEC to make
identification tags available for APC
agents nearly disrupted the poll in
over 100 polling units across the
state.
Also, the early results indicate that
many of the leaders of the PDP in
the state lost in their polling units.
They include the PDP’s candidate’s
running mate Hon. Adejare Bello,
former minister of state for defence
Erelu Olusola Obada, and the party’s
chairman Gani Ola-Oluwa.
Bello lost the election in his Ede
North polling unit where his party
scored 30 votes as against APC’s 130
votes.
The state chairman of PDP, Alhaji
Gani Olaoluwa, also lost the election
in his Olorunda local government
polling unit where PDP scored 95
votes as against APC’s 142 votes.
Aregbesola’s APC won the election in
his Ifofin Ward 08, Ilesa East local
government where he got 214 to
PDP’s 11 votes, while the acting
chairman of the APC in the state,
Elder Lowo Adebiyi, did not lose: APC
trounced the PDP with 108 to 59
votes.
Former minister of state for defence
Erelu Olusola Obada lost her Ibodi,
Atakumosa West local government,
polling unit where PDP scored 3
votes while the APC scored 300
votes.
In Ede North where Senator Isiaka
Adeleke hails from, the APC scored
640 votes as against the PDP’s 9
votes.
However, The PDP flagbearer,
Senator Omisore, made a strong
showing in some polling units in Ife
zone: he scored 149 votes in Ife
Central Ward 05, Unit 01, while the
APC scored 73 votes.
Also defecting former Osun State
governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola could
not deliver to the APC, which scored
61 votes as against PDP that scored
125.
Nonetheless, the election was
preceded by claims and reports of
arrest of some members of the APC
by armed security operatives who
allegedly stormed their residences
after nightfall.
Notwithstanding, the election was
conducted under a peaceful
atmosphere in many towns.
The Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) made good its
promise to ensure that election
materials arrived at polling units on
time while voting started as
scheduled in many local government
areas.
Large turnout, tight security in
Osogbo
There was a large turnout of voters in
most of the polling booths visited by
LEADERSHIP Sunday early yesterday
in Osogbo, Osun State.
INEC officials were at their duty post
as early as 8am with security agents
complementing their services.
As early as 8:25am, over 30 people
had been accredited to vote at
Bishop Street Unit 002 in Olorunda
LGA, Osogbo.
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