Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has won re-election after defeating 14 other candidates in Saturday’s governorship election.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) returning officer, Joshua Ogunwole, declared Adeleke the winner on Sunday morning at the commission’s headquarters in Osogbo, the state capital.
Adeleke, who contested the election on the platform of the Accord Party, polled 511,067 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Bola Oyebamiji of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who secured 444,815 votes.
The governor won in 19 of Osun State’s 30 local government areas, while Oyebamiji won in 11.
Final results
INEC recorded 1,010,604 accredited voters in the election.
The candidates scored:
INEC recorded 985,079 valid votes, while voters cast 20,721 rejected ballots, bringing the total number of votes cast to 1,005,800.
Adeleke’s victory gives him another term as governor of Osun State after he secured the highest number of votes in the keenly contested election.