*SCHEDULES THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 27TH FOR RUN-OFFS
Governor Rauf Aregbesola failed to deliver his home base of Ijeshaland to the All Progressives Congress candidate, Gboyega Oyetola, as the opposition Peoples Democratic Party swept almost all the local councils.
The PDP won Obokun LGA by a large margin 10,859 votes to 7,229 garnered by the APC. But APC won the Ilesa East with 9790 votes. PDP got 8244 votes.
APC also lost Ilesha West LGA to PDP, getting 7251 votes to PDP’s 8286 votes.
Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared Saturday’s Governorship election in Osun state as inconclusive.
The Returning Officer, Professor Joseph Afuwape, said because the cancelled votes totaling 3,486, exceeds the difference between the two leading parties (353), it was impossible for any party to be declared as winner.
The candidate of the PDP, Senator Ademola Adeleke scored 254,698, while the APC governorship candidate, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola scored 256345. The total number of voided votes is 3498.
Recall that while declaring the election inconclusive, the Returning officer had informed that “There was problem of ballot box snatching at Unit 001 in Orolu Local Government and 393 votes were cancelled,” he said.
“At Unit 004 of the same LGA, there was also snatching of ballot box, 387 were cancelled. Area 9, unit 003, there were 167 registered voters. So, for Orolu LGA where there was cancellation, we had 947 registered voters.
“At Ife South LGA, there was also cancellation of election due to the problem of card reader malfunctioning, at that Unit 010 there were 502 registered voters.
“At Oyere 2, Ife North, we also had cancelled election; 51 people were accredited but there were 200 votes that were cast, with that, there was cancellation due to irregularities, over voting, number of registered voters at that Unit 02 was 5353.
“Osogbo Unit 017, there was a case of abscondment by the presiding officer, to this effect, election there was cancelled. Number of registered voters 884.”
Below is how the leading five parties fared;
LG ADC ADP APC PDP SDP
Boluwaduro 69 858 3843 3779 1766
Atakumosa West 106 718 5019 5401 1570
Ifedayo 52 176 3182 3374 1377
Ede South 82 357 4512 16,693 855
Orolu 79 388 5442 7776 2043
Obokun 106 663 7229 10,859 1907
Ilesha East 188 1275 9790 8244 3620
Boripe 137 1137 11,655 6892 2730
Ilesha West 124 2353 7251 8286 2408
Oriade 109 1224 9778 10109 2265
Irepodun 158 2564 6517 8058 4856
Ila 96 186 8403 8241 3134
Isokan 56 682 7297 9048 3460
Odo-Oti 1034 1112 9996 9879 2941
Ayedaade 145 1645 10,861 9836 2967
Atakumosa East 60 629 7073 5218 2140
Ede North 89 758 7025 18,745 1380
Ifelodun 236 2844 9882 12269 1970
Ayedire 144 1642 5474 5133 2396
Ife North 94 745 6527 5486 5158
Ejigbo 258 592 14779 11116 4803
Egbedore 119 636 7354 7231 3367
Ife Central 194 1053 6957 3200 20494
Irewole 249 1915 10049 13848 1142
Olorunda 335 1409 16254 9850 7061
Olaoluwa 1408 2194 5025 4026 2104
Ife South 136 561 7223 4872 6151
Ife East 237 507 8925 6608 17643
Iwo 1164 16425 7644 6122 4153
Osogbo 413 2478 23379 14499 10188
Total 7677 49726 254345 254698 128049
