BREAKING: Adeleke, Oyetola To Battle In Re-Run Election As INEC Declares Osun Governorship Election Inconclusive

The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has declared the Saturday September 22nd governorship election in Osun state inconclusive.

The election, one of the closest in Nigeria’s electoral history, was held on Saturday to elect a new governor for the South-Western state.

At the end of collation of results, Ademola Adeleke of the PDP won majority votes of about 254,698 while Gboyega Oyetola of the APC came a close second with 254,345 votes.

According to electoral rules, a re-run election can be so declared if the margin of victory in an election is lower than cancelled votes, such as in Osun where thousands of votes were cancelled in various local governments while the vote difference between the leading candidates was less than a thousand. In that case, rerun will be held in only affected areas where elections were cancelled.