Breaking News: Gov Aregbesola declared winner of Osun Governorship election by INEC.

By our correspondent. 10-08-14.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Rauf Aregbesola, as winner of the governorship election held on Saturday in Osun State. Aregbesola polled a total of 203,090 votes, winning the highest number of votes in 22 of the 30 Local Government Areas of the State, defeating his closest challenger, Iyiola Omisore of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 120,433. Omisore won in eight local government areas. Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Fatai Akinbade, got 18,135 votes to come a distant third. "Having satisfied the requirements of the law and scoring the highest numbers of votes, Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress is therefore returned elected," the Chief Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Bamidele Omole, said. Full result of election by Local Government Areas below: Ejigbo LGA Wards: 11 Reg voters: 50,674 No. of accredited voters: 33,752 APC: 17,700 PDP: 12,495 LP: 391 Total valid votes: 31,301 Rejected votes: 1,604 Total votes cast: 32,905 Ife South LGA Wards: 11 Reg voters: 44,555 No. of accredited voters: 23,033 APC: 7,325 PDP: 12,811 LP: 146 Total valid votes: 20,901 Rejected votes: 1,108 Total votes cast: 22,079 Atakumosa East LGA Wards: 10 Reg voters: 31,136 No. of accredited voters: 17,597 APC: 9,287 PDP: 6,294 LP: 120 Total valid votes: 16,395 Rejected votes: 974 Total votes cast: 17,369 "Election did not hold in one of the polling units because of some disagreements there," the Collation Officer said. Olorunda LGA Wards: 11 Reg voters: 71,981 No. of accredited voters: 38,301 APC: 26,551 PDP: 8,483 LP: 410 Total valid votes: 36,234 Rejected votes: 1,263 Total votes cast: 37,497 Osogbo LGA Wards: 15 Reg voters: 118,535 No. of accredited voters: 56,741 APC: 39,983 PDP: 11,513 LP: 673 Total valid votes: 53,387 Rejected votes: 2,066 Total votes cast: 55,453 Iwo LGA Reg voters: 66,898 No. of accredited voters: 41,229 APC: 20,827 PDP: 15,493 LP: 790 Total valid votes: 38,377 Rejected votes: 1,996 Total votes cast: 40,373 Ayedire LGA Wards: 10 Reg voters: 25,880 No. of accredited voters: 17,200 APC: 7,724 PDP: 7,813 LP: 423 Total valid votes: 16,268 Rejected votes: 799 Total votes cast: 17,067 ============== Egbedore LGA Reg voters: 33,547 No. of accredited voters: 19,293 APC: 10,615 PDP: 7,024 LP: 157 Total valid votes: 18,144 Rejected votes: 819 Total votes cast: 18,963 ============= Obokun LGA Wards: 10 Reg voters: 37,985 No. of accredited voters: 22,063 APC: 11,696 PDP: 8,618 LP: 84 Total valid votes: 20,932 Rejected votes: 871 Total votes cast: 21,803 ========== Irewole LGA Reg voters: 52,885 No. of accredited voters: 31,731 APC: 18,328 PDP: 10,330 LP: 117 Total valid votes: 29,850 Rejected votes: 1,131 Total votes cast: 30,981 ============ Ayedade LGA Wards: 11 Reg voters: 51,108 No. of accredited voters: 27,311 APC: 12,801 PDP: 11,255 LP: 137 Total valid votes: 25,428 Rejected votes: 1,441 Total votes cast: 26,869 =================== Ifelodun LGA Wards: 12 Reg voters: 53,372 No. of accredited voters: 32,613 APC: 17,447 PDP: 12,442 LP: 96 Total valid votes: 33,113 Rejected votes: 1,141 Total votes cast: 31,972 ============== Ede North LGA Wards: Reg voters: 49,253 No. of accredited voters: 28,289 APC: 15,403 PDP: 10,427 LP: 54 Total valid votes: 26,591 Rejected votes: 1,288 Total votes cast: 27,879 ============== Isokan LGA Wards: Reg voters: 28,472 No. of accredited voters: 22,194 APC: 9,758 PDP: 10,028 LP: 197 Total valid votes: 20,860 Rejected votes: 1,028 Total votes cast: 21,888 ================ Ife North Wards: 10 Reg voters: 45,457 No. of accredited voters: 21,175 APC: 8,603 PDP: 9,841 LP: 265 Total valid votes: 19,506 Rejected votes: 1,231 Total votes cast: 20,737 ==================== Ola-Oluwa Wards: 10 Reg voters: 25,550 No. of accredited voters: 16,495 APC: 7,927 PDP: 4,963 LP: 2,476 Total valid votes: 15,735 Rejected votes: 614 Total votes cast: 16,349 =================== Ife East LGA Wards: 10 Reg voters: 81,437 No. of accredited voters: 39,008 APC: 13,821 PDP: 20,831 LP: 297 Total valid votes: 36,142 Rejected votes: 1,836 Total votes cast: 37,978 ================= Ife Central Wards: Reg voters: 94,722 No. of accredited voters: 37,955 APC: 9,680 PDP: 24555 LP: 102 Total valid votes: 35,308 Rejected votes: 1,742 Total votes cast: 37,054 ===================== Irepodun LGA Wards: 11 Reg voters: 36,521 No. of accredited voters: 22,426 APC: 13,314 PDP: 7,386 LP: 343 Total valid votes: 21,401 Rejected votes: 856 Total votes cast: 22,257 ==================== Ila-Orangun Wards: 11 Reg voters: 33,577 No. of accredited voters: 20,076 APC: 10,825 PDP: 7,916 LP: 43 Total valid votes: 19,150 Rejected votes: 727 Total votes cast: 19,877 "However, in Ward 1, 571 votes were cancelled for the following reasons: results of the election was not collated as there were some anomalies reported at that polling booth," said the Collation Officer. ============= Ede South Wards: 10 Reg voters: 35,941 No. of accredited voters: 21,250 APC: 11,738 PDP: 7,462 LP: 46 Total valid votes: 19,933 Rejected votes: 933 Total votes cast: 20,866 ===================== Atakumosa West LGA Wards: 11 Reg voters: 24,625 No. of accredited voters: 13,173 APC: 6,928 PDP: 5,142 LP: 76 Total valid votes: 12,575 Rejected votes: 446 Total votes cast: 13,021 ==================== Oriade LGA Wards: 12 Reg voters: 47,140 No. of accredited voters: 25,398 APC: 12,523 PDP: 10,214 LP: 136 ============== Orolu LGA Reg voters: 24,914 No. of accredited voters: 16,882 APC: 8,558 PDP: 6,786 LP: 440 Total valid votes: 16,070 Rejected votes: 569 Total votes cast: 16,639 =================== Boripe LGA Wards: 11 Reg voters: 47,100 No. of accredited voters: 24,497 APC: 12,723 PDP: 9,344 LP: 249 Total valid votes: 23,014 Rejected votes: 1,004 Total votes cast: 24,018 "However, we received a petition from APC complaining about over voting in Ward 11," said the Collation Officer. =================== Ilesa West Wards: Reg voters: 52,397 No. of accredited voters: 23,553 APC: 15,427 PDP: 5,449 LP: 32 Total valid votes: 21,641 Rejected votes: 1,128 Total votes cast: 22,769 Odo-Otin LGA Wards: 15 Reg voters: 48,577 No. of accredited voters: 27,398 APC: 11,950 PDP: 12,902 LP: 518 Total valid votes: 25,946 Rejected votes: 1,146 Total votes cast: 27,092 Ilesa East Wards: 11 Reg voters: 54,566 No. Of accredited voters: 24,718 APC: 16,106 PDP: 5,913 LP: 44 Total valid votes: 22,970 Rejected votes: 1,104 Total votes cast: 24,074 Boluwaduro LGA Wards: 10 Reg voters: 16,839 No. Of accredited voters: 10,603 APC: 4,891 PDP: 5,035 LP: 19 Total valid votes: 10,175 Rejected votes: 355 Total votes cast: 10,530 Ifedayo LGA Wards: 10 Reg voters: 13,044 No. Of accredited voters: 8,627 APC: 4,225 PDP: 3,982 LP: 17 Total valid votes: : 8,405 Rejected votes: 165 Total votes cast: 8,570 Meanwhile, Omisore has petitioned INEC discrediting the election and arguing that APC flouted the Electoral Law during the exercise. The petition came before INEC announced the final result. Titled: Protest On The August 9, Gubernatorial Election' Omisore argued that the candidate of the APC, Rauf Aregbesola flouted provisions of the Electoral Act 2010 by announcing results. "I hereby condemn the APC candidate, Raufu Aregbesola declaring his own version of the results without recourse to INEC. With the facts of results, it is apparent that the PDP candidate, Dr. Iyiola Omisore is leading." "This act of APC is in conflict with the provisions of Electoral Law 2010 whereby a candidate can concoct figures and release to confuse the public thus make this election inconclusive until facts behind the figures are released by the INEC. "The peace and stability of this state is such under an unprecedented threat. The results so far by APC remained cancelled."