Adeleke Declared Winner Of Osun Governorship Election By Election Tribunal

The governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party PDP in Osun State, Ademola Adeleke, has been declared the winner of the controversial state governorship election.

The tribunal in its judgement, declared the September 27 rerun election in the state illegal.

The victory of the All Progressive Congress APC and its candidate, Gboyega Oyetola was shorted lived the three-man tribunal gave their judgement in favour of the PDP Candidate, Senator Adeleke.

The Tribunal also ruled that PDP and Adeleke proved that it was the state Returning Officer who cancelled the results in 7 Polling Units, adding that the petitioners also proved that the Returning Officer has no power to cancel election results of a polling unit.

Station Magazine learnt that Tribunal also accepted the deducted 2,029 votes from APC scores and 1,246 votes from PDP votes in 17 polling units where there was non-compliance.