However, many were cautious since the results were not complete and the Independent National Electoral Commission is the only agency vested with the power to declare the winner. Based on this, several hundreds of APC supporters trooped to the INEC office along Osogbo-Gbongan Road but the heavily armed security personnel who barricaded the road prevented them from getting close to the office which was undoubtedly the most secure place in Osun State on that day.

Not perturbed by the restriction of movement, they moved to the opposite space at the entrance of the State House of Assembly where they kept vigil in the cold waiting for the much expected announcement from INEC. Anxiety was heightened among residents and supporters of the APC when rumour began to make the rounds that INEC had been given an order from Abuja that a wrong candidate should be declared as the winner.

Respite, however, came when the Vice Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University, Prof. Bamitale Omole, who is the Returning Officer for the poll led the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Olusegun Agbaje, the Supervising National Electoral Commissioner for Osun Governorship Election, Ambassador Mohammad Wali; Ekiti State REC, Alhaji Halilu Pai, and others to the media centre where journalists who had become fatigued due to the rigours of travelling round the state to cover the poll were waiting.

[b] The announcement of the result started by some minutes past 2am with Ifedayo local government area and it lasted till around 5am when the result from Ejigbo local government area was announced. It was no longer difficult to know that Aregebsola had won but the returning officer announced that there would be a break to enable INEC sum up all the results.

There was anxiety as rumour mongers went to work again stating that there was a break in order to give the Returning Officer and INEC officials room to manipulate the result and possibly to call back some electoral officers to come and represent their results.

[size=14pt]After about two hours, journalists at the media centre burst into a protest song: “All we are saying, declare winner!” Omole’s plea fell on deaf ears as the protesting journalists continued with their agitation. [/size] The vice chancellor later explained that transferring the results was cumbersome. At last, the final moment came and Omole read the preamble and said, “ Having satisfied the requirement of the law and having scored the highest number of votes cast, I hereby declare Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola the winner of the governorship election held in Osun State on August 9, 2014 and he is returned as the governor of the state.” [/b]

There was wild jubilation in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, and other major towns across the state when Aregbesola was declared the winner of the election. The most surprising aspect of the jubilation at the media centre was that party agents from other political parties which contested the election were the first to jump up and started singing victory songs.

All party agents from the opposition parties were extremely happy and celebrated Aregbesola’s victory even more than the leaders of the APC present. However, the Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bola Ajao, who was the PDP agent at the collation centre, was the only agent who wore a gloomy face and he refused to sign the form EC8D which is the result sheet at the state level.

Supporters of the APC who had kept vigil at the INEC office, burst into spontaneous jubilation even before the returning officer could complete his declaration. The celebration started from the INEC office by the APC supporters and other party faithful joined the train while thousands trooped in from other towns and villages to join the jubilant supporters in Osogbo.

Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/twists-and-turns-of-aregbesolas-victory/

My concerns re
1. Why did the REC not announced the winner after announcing the results of all the local govt?
2. Does summing up of figures for thirty LGA for twenty parties so difficult that it took a Professor of many years experiences for over two hours?
[Note if the same Professor will set it as exams, he can not allocate more than ten minutes for it]
3. Why was it that, it took the Journalists to protest the declaration of the winner before the REC eventually comes out to do so?
4. What makes other parties except the PDP took the jubilation first before the declared winner party?

Note that the PDP aspirants had earlier said the results he had were different from what the pressmen/observers are releasing over the internet and the alleged election-rigging manual with estimated votes for PDP release by APC before the election.

Is Jonathan and PDP or Jega who adopt the head counts to be limits for voting at the Osun election be praised for providing the free and fair election in Osun?

It is obvious that they wanted to Rig. Kudos to the 4th Arm of Government-The Media