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Adeleke Emerges Winner of Osun Governorship Election

17Jul

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Elections, News, Nigeria

Adeleke Emerges Winner of Osun Governorship Election

Senator Ademola Adeleke, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Osun State governorship election, has been declared the winner of the poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Senator Ademola Adeleke, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Osun State governorship election has been declared winner of the poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, Returning Officer for the election and Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, declared Adeleke as the winner of the poll having garnered a total of 403,371 votes to beat the incumbent, Adegboyega who contested under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC. According to INEC, Oyetola finished second in the poll with a ...

Osun Elections: EFCC Deploy Operatives To Checkmate Vote Buying

The Economic and Financial Commission, EFCC, has deployed its operatives across the polling units in the ongoing Osun elections to nab vote buyers as the governorship election is being conducted. The Economic and Financial Commission, EFCC, has deployed its operatives across the polling units in Osun State to nab vote buyers as the governorship election is being conducted. Vote-buying has emerged as a menace during elections in Nigeria, prompting attempts at curbing it. The Osun State governorship is contested by 15 political parties but the battle for the number one citizen is widely expected to be majorly between the incumbent governor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Gboyega Oyetola and Senator Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Se...

Osun Elections: Court Bars Omotekun From Poll Duty

The Yoruba Security Network, codenamed Amotekun Corps has been restrained from participating in the Osun State governorship election, billed to hold on Saturday. The judgment was delivered by an Osun State Federal High court that sat in Osogbo, the Osun State capital. The Court ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to make use of the Amotekun Corps as part of the personnel to be deployed to provide security in the election According to the judgment, Amotekun personnel are not to be deployed either security officers or volunteers in the governorship poll. See Also: Election in Osun: 21,000 Policemen Deployed for Security The order partly read, “That the 1st defendant (INEC) is hereby restrained from requesting the deployment of the second defen...