Adegboyega Oyetola, the Osun State Governor, has been declared the winner of the governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress held on Saturday.

Asserting the outcome very early on Sunday, the Chairman of the governorship major committee and Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, mentioned Oyetola received the election, having garnered 222,169 votes, in opposition to 12,921 votes that his closest challenger, Moshood Adeoti received. He additionally mentioned one other of Oyetola’s challenger, Lasun Yusuf, received 460 votes and positioned third.

He mentioned a complete of 408,697 voters registered within the major election of the social gathering, whereas 247, 207 voters have been accredited to vote. The whole vote solid and legitimate votes have been 235,550.

Abdulrazaq mentioned Oyetola received in all of the 30 native authorities areas within the state.

In his remarks, Osun APC chairman, Gboyega Famoodun, counseled the diligence of the committee, safety businesses and others that labored for the success of the train.

Sunday PUNCH had reported that Oyetola defeated Adeoti, a former secretary to the state authorities, on the ward of the Minister of Inside, Rauf Aregbesola, in Saturday’s APC governorship major.

However the Rasaq Salinsile-led faction of the social gathering to which the minister belongs, rejected the outcome. The faction claimed that the train was fraught with irregularities.

Adeoti, a former chairman of the Motion Congress of Nigeria earlier than it merged with the APC, is the anointed candidate of Aregbesola for the social gathering’s governorship ticket.

Oyetola, was the chief of workers to Aregbesola when the latter served as governor of the state for eight years.

Additionally within the race is a former Deputy Speaker of the Home of Representatives, Yusuf.

In Aregbesola’s Ifofin Ward 8, Ilesa East Native Authorities, Adeoti received 146 votes whereas Oyetola polled 309 votes. Lasun Yusuf additionally misplaced in his Ward 5, Ilobu getting 10 votes, as Oyetola polled 323 whereas Adeoti received 62 votes.

Additionally, in his Iragbaji Ward 1, Saint Peters Main Faculty, Iragbiji, Oyetola received 1,612 votes, whereas Adeoti and Yusuf received no vote.

Talking in an unique interview with Sunday PUNCH, the Publicity Secretary of Aregbesola’s faction, Abiodun Agboola, famous that the issues raised by the group on the stakeholders’ assembly held with the social gathering’s Electoral Committee on Friday in Osogbo, the state capital, weren’t addressed.

Agboola mentioned names of Adeoti’s supporters have been faraway from the membership register used for the train.

He additional claimed that hoodlums have been used to push back Adeoti’s supporters, including that outcome sheets weren’t offered for the compilation of the end result of the ballot.

He additional alleged, “Verified info from the brokers of Alhaji Moshood Adeoti, our governorship aspirant, has it that there isn’t a file and there are not any outcome sheets in any of the 332 wards of the state.

“Additionally, there was no correct accreditation within the majority of the ward collation centres the place voting was going down. The accreditation executed in some locations have been skewed in favour of Governor Gboyega Oyetola as members of the group have been allowed to cross by means of the accreditation course of with out a lot ado.

“Names of a sizeable variety of the members of the APC who needed to vote for Adeoti have been lacking within the register of the social gathering. This we had envisaged by calling for the show of social gathering register earlier than the conduct of the first.

“State government-appointed officers have been used as returning officers. We’re rejecting the outcome as a result of it was not a real reflection of what occurred right now.

“Votes have been allotted in all of the wards in Osun State. There have been no outcome sheets for the outcomes to be entered. What they did right now was merely to allocate outcomes. They got here to voting centres with thugs.

“We’re rejecting any outcomes that could be introduced by the committee.”