Hundreds of the supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party on Monday stormed the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission to protest against rerun elections ordered by the commission due to the inconclusive governorship poll held on Saturday.
The protesters, who were armed with placards with various inscriptions such as “No To rerun, “, INEC don’t conspire with APC”; “The people spoke on Saturday, announce the result” among others.
The protesters berated the INEC for not declaring Senator Ademola Adeleke the winner of the poll having scored the highest number of votes in the poll.
They said the people of the state had spoken that majority of the voters wanted Adeleke as the state governor and that should be respected.
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WuzupNaija recalls that the Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday declared the election inconclusive based on an INEC technicality.
It fixed September 27th for Osun State governorship election rerun.
INEC Returning Officer and Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Prof Joseph Fuwape, while announcing the results said the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ademola Adeleke, polled 254,698 votes to defeat that of the All Progressives Congress, Gboyega Oyetola, who polled 254, 345 votes.
However, due to irregularities which marred the election at some polling units in Ife North, Ife South and Orolu local government areas, including cases of card reader malfunctioning, ballot box snatching, among others, this led to the cancellation of 3,498 votes recorded in the affected polling units.
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Quoting INEC’s Standing Rules at the commission’s headquarters in Osogbo, the state capital, Fowape, said since the margin between the two leading candidates was lower than the registered cancelled votes, the election had to be declared inconclusive.
