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The candidate of the Accord Party in the Saturday governorship election in Osun, Ademola Adeleke is set to be declared the winner of the election as the Independent National Electoral Commission rounds up collation of results. The declaration of results which started in the wee hours of Sunday saw the returning and electoral officers of each of the local governments coming forward to present the results from their respective local governments where they supervised the elections. As at the time of filing this report, Adeleke had won in Osogbo, Ejigbo, Egbedore, Ayedire, Ede North, Ife East, and Odo-Otin LGAs. The…

The National Secretary of the All Progressive Congress Dr. Ajibola Basiru has failed to secure Osogbo for the candidate of the party Bola Oyebanji in the ongoing governorship election held on Saturday. Basiru who hails from Osogbo had once represented the Osun Central Senatorial district in the National Assembly. By the conclusion of collation of the results of the local government area on Saturday, votes scored by Basiru’s party stood at 27,674 while that of Accord Party stood at 32,043.

The Independent National Electoral Commission has resumed the uploading of results of the governorship election held on Saturday. The resumption started almost two hours after what appeared like freeze giving rife to speculations that there were moves from some unnamed quarters to halt the process. Governor Ademola Adeleke of Accord Party had called on President Bola Tinubu to instruct the commission to proceed with the uploading and conclude the exercise. This was just as his nephew David Adeleke popularly called Davido mounted pressure on the commission to resume the collation of results.

The candidate of the Accord Party, Ademola Adeleke, has taken an early lead in the ongoing Osun State governorship election with 222,586 votes from 1,634 polling units, according to the latest results aggregated from verified INEC Form EC8A returns. Adeleke, the incumbent governor, is currently ahead of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Oyebamiji, who has polled 173,003 votes from 1,641 polling units. The latest figures put Adeleke ahead of Oyebamiji by 49,583 votes, with the Accord candidate securing 54.3 per cent of the 409,972 total valid votes recorded in the results released so far. Oyebamiji, meanwhile, has 42.2…

Attentions have shifted to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s election results portal iREV for the outcome of Saturday’s governorship poll. While voting had since ended in most polling units by 5pm today, results of the election had started trickling in as INEC uploaded the results from the various polling units across the state. As at 7pm on Saturday, 2,748 results had been uploaded out of a total of 3,763 from the exercise representing about 73.03% of the total results. The Accord Party governorship candidate and incumbent Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC…

About 146 persons have been arrested in Osun over allegation that they were brought into the state to vote for the Accord Party. Arrested for bringing the alleged “imported voters” was one Ibrahim Abiola, a member of the Osun state House of Assembly who represents Irewole Isokan State Constituency. He is an indigene of Ikire, the hometown of the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Bola Oyebanji. NPO Reports gathered that intelligence reports hinted that some strange people were being housed in a facility within the Ikire town in Irewole Local Government Area of the state before security men…

Ahead of the governorship election in Osun, the African Democratic Congress on Wednesday raised the alarm alleging a plot to arrest its National Secretary Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. Bolaji Abdullaji, National Publicity Secretary of the ADC, said the party has received what he called “credible reports” of plans to arrest the former Osun state governor. NPO Reports that Aregbesola is leading the campaigns of the party’s candidate in Osun for the Saturday’s governorship election, Najeem Salam. ” Given the pattern of intimidation, harassment and misuse of state institutions that has increasingly characterised the conduct of this government towards the opposition, we…

Afrobeat star, David Adeleke, popularly called Davido has told the people of Osun state, especially the youths not to allow themselves to be intimidated ahead of the August 15 governorship election. Davido, at a press briefing in Osogbo on Wednesday, also called for peace; asking the authorities to allow the people choose who leads them. NPO Reports that Davido’s Uncle, Senator Ademola Adeleke is seeking re-election as the governor of Osun state. There have been pockets of violence across the state ahead of the election which holds in 10 days time. He said political ambitions should not be allowed to…

Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun on Thursday said what appears like a genocide is gradually unfolding in his state as the August 15 governorship election draws closer. Adeleke said the wave of violence allegedly unleashed on Osun by the All Progressive Congress is unprecedented adding that ordinarily, he was not supposed to attend the peace meeting having been ignored in all his efforts to ensure peace reigns in the state. Adeleke said the last three months have witnessed loss of eight party members with more than 20 injured in gun attacks. “There is no single prosecution or active arrest till…

Film maker Kunle Afolayan has denied owing First Bank of Nigeria N5bn. The actor cum director in a video posted on his social media pages on Friday said if any bank could offer his company, Golden Effects a sum of N5bn, he would b glad to use it for the betterment of the country through his creative productions. His response came amidst some online postings suggesting that a court had summoned Afolayan after the bank reportedly said he was unreachable. The postings suggested that the said loan was to facilitate his production of Anikulapo, one of his major productions. Hinting…