The APC candidate has shot into the lead after the rerun election on Thursday.

Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives' Congress (APC) has defeated Senator Ademola Adeleke of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in the race to become the next Osun State governor.
The Osun State governorship rerun election took place on Thursday, September 27, 2018, just days after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the original September 22 election to have been inconclusive.

This was because the victory margin of 353 votes of first-placed candidate, Adeleke, over second-placed Gboyega was less than the 3498 votes cancelled in seven polling units.

The rerun election took place in the affected polling units on Thursday and the results already announced mean that Oyetola will become the state's next governor.

In the results that were announced by INEC officials at Orolu Ward 08 PU001, Oyetola acquired 111 votes while Adeleke only got 3. In Orolu Ward 08 PU004, Oyetola won 198 votes to Adeleke's 15, and his lead only got even bigger in Ife South, Olode Ward 07, PU12 where he scored 283 votes to Adeleke's 15.

In Ife South Osi Ward 8 PU10, Oyetola scored 172 votes to Adeleke's 21, and recorded a bigger margin in Ife North, Ward 10, PU2 where he scored 126 votes to Adeleke's 2. In Osogbo Ataoja Ward 05 PU 017, considered to be APC's stronghold, Oyetola won 299 votes, while Adeleke got 165.

Despite his impressive performance in Saturday's election, Adeleke beat Oyetola at just one polling unit, winning 64 votes over the APC candidate's 41 in Orolu Ward 09 PU 003.

Oyetola won the rerun election with a difference of 835 votes as he acquired a total of 1160 votes to Adeleke's 325.

When Adeleke's previous lead of 353 is added to his tally in the rerun, he's still 482 votes behind Oyetola, meaning that the APC candidate is set to be announced winner of the election.

The final official result is expected to be declared at the INEC secretariat in Osogbo, the state capital.

BurningBlade:
Some, people will weep today. Midolian, how do you want to console them?

Iamgrey5:
I see a lot of people who often taunt Yorubas with the famous 'Osogbo backward city rant" are getting increasingly emotional about the election results.


What can be the reason for this change of attitude, I wonder

midolian:
I am already tired of consoling them. I think I LL have to leave them to cry on

kotv:


What's sad about this event is you Yorubas thinking this will anyway impact others. That your region election is rigged to the mass is full daylight of all Is a thing of pride to you people and a spite to others clearly shows you lots claim of educated is far fetchedd. Anyway, it is you people they'll go back to owning years of salary. Let any Yoruba complain of that again and I hope tunder fire that person before it happens. What a joke. Every day Yorubas proves their educational value is lower than what they say.

Iamgrey5:
What is sad is how you wrote a whole epistle filled with gibberish and emotionally charged incoherent nonsense over an election that has little or nothing to do with you.

You write as if your region is faring any better than the region of the Yorubas, or if governors from other political parties are not owing workers salaries.

I dear you to submit a state under any political party in Nigeria that is light years ahead of other states.

The last time i checked, many people from the oil rich south south region of Nigeria are complaining bitterly about poor governance. Yet, this is a region that has always been under the control of PDP since 1999

NonsoWow:
Congratulations to APC and the happy people of Osun State. This is victory for the rule of law.

In the meantime, scores stand at;

Tinubu 1 Saraki 0

Oshiomhole 6 Secondus 0

kotv:


We may have been complaining of poor governance but there's no state in SS where our future have been severally destroyed by any of our leaders. Every damage currently in SS by our leaders can be easily fixed with the right leadership. None of any state in SS is severally indebted and have inability to pay it off like states in SW. None of SS leaders owe years of salary and had to be begged repeatedly for payment before they actually paid like in SW. During the last recession the area that complained the most and even had neighbors stealing from eachother was SW but I digress, who am I to judge you people. I don't care what happens to you people. What ever suffering you continuously bring to yourselves, that's your headache. Enjoy your poverty

kotv:
We knew that's safe journey! And please don't think of coming back cos never again will we go back to PDP! They've dealt with us for too long
thesult even before the rerun. Who didn't know the reason the Saturday election was deemed inconclusive was to give APC chance to rig itself in. Even the rerun, they provided a video of a man refused by the police to go in and vote for Godsake.

I pray my Visa gets approved. I need to leave this country. I have to leave this country.

kotv:


[s]What's sad about this event is you Yorubas thinking this will anyway impact others. That your region election is rigged to the mass is full daylight of all Is a thing of pride to you people and a spite to others clearly shows you lots claim of educated is far fetchedd. Anyway, it is you people they'll go back to owning years of salary. Let any Yoruba complain of that again and I hope tunder fire that person before it happens. What a joke. Every day Yorubas proves their educational value is lower than what they say.[/s]