The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Osun State, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, has been declared the winner of the governorship election in the state by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
The Returning Officer, Prof Joseph Fuwape, declared Oyetola the winner of the after the collation of the results of the rerun supplementary election in seven polling units.
Oyetola polled a total of 255,505 to emerge the winner of the poll while the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party scored a total of 255,023 to come second in the contest.
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Adeleke had scored the highest in the first ballot but the INEC ordered a rerun because the number of cancelled votes in the seven polling units was far higher than the margin by which Adeleke beat the runner-up.
The rerun poll has been heavily criticised and described as a transparently rigged election.
At Ifon, some people who claimed to have registered at Kajola Ward 8/Unit 1: Ward 8 Unit 5 and Ward 9/unit five where the rerun election was held on Thursday alleged APC thugs chased some of them away from their polling units while others PDP members were prevented from going into the villages to vote.
Some of them said they were beaten in the presence of security agents who allegedly provided cover for the APC thugs.
A member of the Osun State House of Assembly and a commissioner were seen at the entrance to the Ward 9 Unit 3 Gbogbo Primary School in Orolu Local Government.
Hoodlums were seen in the three units where rerun poll was held in Orolu LGA.
A thug known as D Law was present at the units and he and his squad moved some meters away from the voting area and parked an unmarked car there.
Some residents of the area told our correspondent that they were beaten by the hoodlums at Kajola Primary School in the presence of heavily armed security operatives there.
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The residents said APC thugs allegedly collected they permanent voter cards from them forcefully and drove them away having been identified as PDP supporters.
No agent of the PDP was present at the unit when our correspondent visited the unit but other party agents including the APC’s were present.
