Senator Ademola Adeleke, gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party has won the Osun State governorship election.
Adeleke won 17 of the 30 Local Government Area (LGAs) in the governorship election held in the State of Osun, yesterday, the Incumbent governor, Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC), won 13 LGAs.
In line with the declaration of INEC’s officer, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, while Adeleke garnered 403,371 votes in the overall results from LGAs, Oyetola who ran on the platform of the APC polled 375, 027 votes. Kehinde Atanda of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) came in at a distant third with 10,104 votes, followed by Akin Ogunbiyi of the Accord Party with 4,515 votes.
