Osun State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, has declared Thursday a work-free day to enable residents of the state to go out and vote in the rerun supplementary election holding today in seven polling units.

This is contained in a statement issued by the governor through his media aide, Mr Sola Fasure, and a copy of which was made available to our correspondent in Osogbo on Wednesday.

The statement said the public holiday was to enable workers to participate in the rerun governorship election after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the Sept. 22 election inconclusive.

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The governorship election was declared inconclusive and a rerun ordered because the number of cancelled votes was higher than the margin between the two top candidates.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Ademola Adeleke, was leading with 254,698 votes, while his closest rival of All Progressives Congress (APC), Gboyega Oyetola, had 254,345 votes, a difference of 353 votes.

The margin was, however, less than the 3,498 votes in the polling units where voting was cancelled.

Consequently, the INEC Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Joseph Afuwape, declared the poll inconclusive and ordered a re-run.

“Unfortunately as the returning officer, it is not possible to declare any party as clear winner of this election at the first ballot,” Afuwape said.

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(NAN)