Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun State has been declared the winner of the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship primary election in the state.
Oyetola, who is seeking re-election, polled 222,169, votes to defeat his closet rival, Moshood Adeoti, the preferred candidate of the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, who scored 12,921.
The governor won in all the 30 local government areas of the state in the direct primary election on Saturday, February 19.
He also defeated Lasun Yusuf, a former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, who scored 460 votes.
The Kwara Governor, AbdulRaham AbdulRazak, Chairman of the Primary Election Committee, announced the results at about 3:00 a.m. at the APC Secretariat in Ogo-Oluwa, Osogbo on Sunday morning.
Mr AbdulRazak said that the total registered voters for the exercise was 408,697, adding that the total numbers of accredited voters was 247, 207, while the total votes cast was 235,550.
He said: “I, AbdulRaham AbdulRazak, the Chairman, Primary Election Committee, hereby certified that Adegboyega Isiaka Oyetola, having scored the highest votes cast in Osun governorship primary election held on February 19 and met all requirements as contained in the guildlines of the election is hereby declared the winner.”
In his remarks, the Chairman of APC in Osun, Prince Gboyega Famodun, commended the committee for a job well done, saying that the peaceful outcome of the primary had put an end to tension in the state.
He said the party would work toward the victory of Oyetola, who is now the party’s candidate for July 16 governorship election in the state.
Recall that Aregbesola, in a meeting held last Monday in Ilesha, had predicted the ouster of the incumbent governor ahead of the primaries, saying that his preferred candidate, Adeoti, will emerge victorious at the primary.
But Oyetola scored a massive victory in Aregbesola’s Ward and local government, polling 309 votes to Adeoti’s 124 votes at Ward level, and 4857 votes to Adeoti’s 483 at local government level in Ilesa East.
Oyetola also floored Adeoti in Iwo, the local government area of Moshood Adeoti, polling 9432 votes to Adeoti’s 2543 votes.
