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APC Agent Refuses Officials To Count Ballots For Accord In Oyetola's Polling Unit

NO VOTES FOR ACCORD: SUSPECTED APC AGENT PREVENTS OFFICIALS FROM COUNTING BALLOTS AT OYETOLA'S POLLING UNIT

No votes were recorded for Accord at PU10, Ward 1, Lado Hill, Boripe LGA after a party agent, suspected to be an APC member, prevented electoral officers from counting ballots cast for the party.

Adegboyega Oyetola, minister of marine and blue economy, had earlier cast his vote at the polling unit.

TheCable observed a party agent, wearing an APC tag, insisting that the ballot papers be voided, claiming the directive was an "order from above".

The presiding officer initially objected but yielded after police and other security personnel moved away from the scene. Party agents subsequently took ink from the electoral officers and manually voided the ballots belonging to Accord.

RESULT
ADP: 1
ADC: 5
AA: 2
APC: 242

#OsunDecides2026 #OsunElections

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APC cannot win in a free and fair election

It's impossible

Even with the threat and several arrests of accord members in the state
Adeleke is already leading with over 51k votes

Osun people too like the man
Moreso, they are tired of APC

APC 50k vote buying wasted, people collected their money and still voted for their preferred candidate

Tinubu is clapping for them now, and saying "E ku ise awon omo mi' (Well done my boys!')

The officer should be arrested immediately,after everything Adeleke still won

Tinubu is too power drunk .
May God help us in the next election o.

Electronic e-voting will take care of this madness 😠.

Apc failure and disgrace to democracy

BY. ANY. MEANS. NECESSARY!!!

Osun MUST be won AT ALL COSTS!!!

Imagine one man withholding Nigerians national right all because he's a paid agent, Nigeria is a joke.

Who's surprise here??

The APC agents are simply obeying tinubu's directives.

Slippy:
BY. ANY. MEANS. NECESSARY!!!

Osun MUST be won AT ALL COSTS!!!

Grab it, snatch it and run away with it

This will show you what tulumbu Apc have in place for you guys by January next year....

All is fair in politics .... Tulumbu 2026

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APC Agent Refuses Officials To Count Ballots For Accord In Oyetola's Polling Unit



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Party and politics aside. No Albert can do that in my polling unit. A single agbero, hmmmmm. Lol. These people are just full of noise, no action.

A vote for APC is a vote for anarchy.


It's super obvious.

This was how APC win the 2023 general election
...... State Police loading

Pure lies. Anything to paint APC black and evil. No video evidence.

We are footballer we play ball for a living

Stomoney:
How can this be possible.

I seriously wonder.

Seun seun seun

15 Governors and Senate president dey for osun as we speak and some body dey tell me say Adeleke go still win how

etokhana:
APC Agent Refuses Officials To Count Ballots For Accord In Oyetola's Polling Unit



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Elections are being counted in Osun, online INEC are also counting theirs


Tinubu till 2031.

Stomoney:
How can this be possible.

Baba keep quiet
If them tell u this story for dream u go doubt
Nawa for you
For warri Dem do am for my eyes for 2023 general election
U don see guns and men dey your corner tell u to throw away the electoral materials for police and army front

Politics isn't online na offline
From polli unit to collation center things dey happen, from there to inec office for night
U dey hux dey sleep and then dey do their thing
When morning reach u go say na God put the person for office

it seems like they select all the bad eggs and just put them in All presents criminals party .you can hardly see any reasonable person in that party .if not thug, agbero or touts nawa

Under the Democrat who fought Abacha from London
And some clowns believe this same man will give them state police

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According to Apc situation room Apc is leading with 1,320 votes

Apc 44,456
Accord 44,136
Adc 1300

Tinubu is too childish for a kindergarten boy. Is this the one they termed the smartest politician in Southwest? If that is the case then South West have the dullest of politicians if tinubu is really their best.

This present administration have set this country on a destructive path... Soon our elections will be like that or north Korea

Gotocourt:
Electronic e-voting will take care of this madness 😠.

People that fought against e-transmission of results will allow u adopt e-voting? De play

Gotocourt:
Electronic e-voting will take care of this madness 😠.

Exactly my point, physical voting system is a waste of time, energy and resources

Go sleep...loser and failures

benuejosh:
Pure lies. Anything to paint APC black and evil. No video evidence.

go and see osun decides. even with the attempts, accord don dust them. 80 percent of the results have been released