Adeleke Leads Osun Governorship Election with 95% Results
In the ongoing governorship election in Osun State, Governor Ademola Adeleke of the Accord Party is in a strong position, leading with 509,057 votes, which accounts for 51.7% of the total votes uploaded by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). As of 2:06 a.m., INEC had uploaded results from 3,612 polling units, representing 95.99% of the total 3,763 polling units.
Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji of the All Progressives Congress (APC) follows with 425,879 votes (43.2%). Adeleke is leading in 21 Local Government Areas, while Oyebamiji leads in nine.
Notably, several APC governors and key political figures, including Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Speaker Tajudeen Abbas, campaigned for Oyebamiji. The election saw minor delays in 207 polling units.
Former governor Rauf Aregbesola and former deputy governor Iyiola Omisore lost in their respective polling units to the APC and Accord Party.
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