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Osogbo: By Rotimi OYEDELE. Published, Saturday, July 16, 2022
THE GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATES of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Goernor Adegboyega Oyetola and Peoples Democratic Party counterpart, Ademola Adeleke, won their polling units in the ongoing governorship election in Osun State.
Oyetola polled 545 votes to defeat his main rival Ademola Adeleke of the PDP a the latter polled 218 votes to defeat his main contender, Governor Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress.
Adeleke scored 69 votes, while Oyetola scored 23 votes at their respective polling units to show their electoal strengths at their homme bases.
Also, All Progressives Congress won elections in the polling units of Osun State Governor Gboyega Oyetola, his deputy, Benedict Alabi, and Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola.
In Oyetola’s polling unit situated at ward 1, LA school, Popo, Iragbiji in Boripe Local Government Area, APC got 545 votes to defeat its closest rival, Ademola Adeleke of Peoples Democratic Party, who had 69 votes.
APC also won Aregbesola’s polling unit situated at Ward 8, unit 1, Isare Ifofin, Ilesa East Local Government Area of Osun State in Saturday’s election.
The ruling party secured 164 votes while PDP trailed with 134 votes.
However, Aregbesola didn’t participate in the election.
Deputy Governor Alabi also won his polling unit at ward 6, unit 7, Baptist Day School, Ikire, in Irewole Local Government with 206 votes while PDP scored 184.
Alabi, who voted at 10:32 am, described the exercise as peaceful and orderly.
He commended the level of consciousness and enthusiasm displayed by voters, adding that Nigeria was moving towards democratic advancement.
“The turnout is massive and encouraging as you can see, every process is orderly and impressive. All stakeholders diligently discharged their duties.
“This is a clear testimony that our democracy is growing to the point of maturity and we are sure of victory as a party,” he said.
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