The Governor of Osun State and the All Progressives Congress candidate, Rauf Aregbesola, polled a total of 394,684 votes to emerge the winner of the state governorship election held on Saturday.
Aregbesola won in 24 local government areas of the 30 local government areas in the state to maintain a clear lead. His closest rival and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Iyiola Omisore, garnered 292,750 votes to occupy second position. He won in six local government areas. The Labour Party’s candidate, Mr. Fatai Akinbade, occupied a distant third position. He won no local government area.
The local government areas won by Aregbesola were Ifedayo, Boripe, Orolu, Atakunmosa West, Ilesa West, and Ilesa East. He also won in Ayedade, Ayedire, Ede North, Ede South, Egbedore, Ejigbo, Ifelodun, and Ila local government areas.
Others were Irepodun, Irewole, Iwo, Obokun, Ola Oluwa, Olorunda, Oriade, and Osogbo.
Omisore won in Odo-Otin, Bolowaduro, Ife Central, Ife East, Ife North, Ife South, Isokan, and Iwo.
The announcement of the results brought to a climax the hype and excitement that preceded the Saturday event. Although the accreditation was scheduled to commence by 8am, voters were already at the various polling units as early as 6.30am waiting for INEC officials.
Our correspondents report that the election was largely peaceful in nearly all the local government areas of the state.
Our correspondents who covered the election in Osun East Senatorial District, where the two major candidates, Governor Rauf Aregbesola of All Progressives Party and Senator Iyiola Omisore of the Peoples Democratic Party, come from, observed that supporters of the two candidates came out early to vote.
With the heavy presence of security men on all major roads and in all the polling units, movement from one place to the other was restricted. From Osogbo to Ife and later Ilesa, our correspondents observed that security forces ensured that there was no vehicle plying the road except those with INEC passes.
The same applied to all the roads in the state, including the highway from Ibadan. It was a difficult day for travellers passing through the Ife-Akure federal road as soldiers also blocked the road.
Soldiers and other security men also mounted four road blocks between Osogbo and Ede, frisking voters and inspecting observers vehicles even after showing their accredita
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