Osun election result: How PDP’s Adeleke reacted to declaration of APC’s Oyetola as winner

Sen. Ademola Adeleke, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in
the Osun governorship election, has rejected the result of the rerun
poll.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the early
hours of Friday, declared Gboyega Oyetola winner of the contest,
having satisfied the requirement of the law and scored the highest
number of votes.

Adeleke, in a statement in Osogbo by his campaign organisation's
spokesperson, Mr Olawale Rasheed, said he would seek legal redress.

Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, the APC candidate defeated Adeleke with 482
votes in the rerun poll.

Oyetola scored a total of 255,505 to defeat Adeleke who scored 255,023.

Adeleke, however, alleged that voters were deliberately refused access
to polling points at gun points while those allowed to voting centres
were forced to vote for APC.

He said PDP party agents were arrested, beaten up and shut out of
polling centres while the roads were blocked to stop voters and
observers.

"Applying all standards, today's supplementary poll is a non-event as
all norms of the electoral process are violated," he said.

The campaign vowed to challenge the outcome legally.

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

Adeleke then led the race with 254,698 votes, 353 votes more than his
closest rival, Gboyega Oyetola of the APC.