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  • Oyetola Defeats Aregbesola’s Candidate to Secure Osun APC Guber ticket

    Oyetola Defeats Aregbesola’s Candidate to Secure Osun APC Guber ticket

    Gboyega Oyetola, Osun state governor, will be the flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the July 16 governorship election.

    The governor, who is seeking a second term in office, defeated Moshood Adeoti and Yusuf Lasun to win the governorship primary on Saturday.

    The results were announced around 3am on Sunday and Governor Oyetola was declared winner of the primary election by the Chairman of the poll, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazak of Kwara State, at the APC secretariat in Osogbo where votes from the 30 local government areas of the state were tallied.

    “I hereby certified that Gboyega Oyetola, having secured the number of highest votes cast at the primary election and having secured all guidelines contained, is hereby declared winner,” he said.

    The APC conducted the exercise using the direct mode of primary across the 332 wards in the state. This mode allows all party members to choose the candidate of their choice as against the option of using delegates.

    See the primary results from the 30 LGAs below:

    Atakumosa East
    Oyetola – 2,637
    Adeoti – 165
    Lasun – 2

    Atakumosa West
    Oyetola – 4,655
    Adeoti – 305
    Lasun – 7

    Ayedaade
    Oyetola – 3,615
    Adeoti – 540
    Lasun – 0

    Ayedire
    Oyetola – 3,274
    Adeoti – 279
    Lasun – 3

    Boluwaduro
    Oyetola – 6,399
    Adeoti – 62
    Lasun – 0

    Boripe
    Oyetola – 15,034
    Adeoti – 5
    Lasun – 0

    Ede North
    Oyetola – 7,117
    Adeoti – 311
    Lasun – 2

    Ede South
    Oyetola – 2,664
    Adeoti – 628
    Lasun – 0

    Egbedore
    Oyetola – 5,500
    Adeoti – 420
    Lasun – 0

    Ejigbo
    Oyetola – 8,007
    Adeoti – 360
    Lasun – 0

    Ife Central
    Oyetola – 10,843
    Adeoti – 344
    Lasun – 1

    Ifedayo
    Oyetola – 4,214
    Adeoti – 141
    Lasun – 0

    Ife East
    Oyetola – 12,030
    Adeoti – 326
    Lasun – 0

    Ifelodun
    Oyetola – 11,873
    Adeoti – 631
    Lasun – 27

    Ife North
    Oyetola – 3,377
    Adeoti – 242
    Lasun – 5

    Ife South
    Oyetola – 8,268
    Adeoti – 43
    Lasun – 0

    Ila
    Oyetola – 8,834
    Adeoti – 47
    Lasun – 0

    Ilesa East
    Oyetola – 4,857
    Adeoti – 483
    Lasun – 1

    Ilesa West
    Oyetola – 3,877
    Adeoti – 446
    Lasun – 0

    Irepodun
    Oyetola – 7,928
    Adeoti – 732
    Lasun – 214

    Irewole
    Oyetola – 7,560
    Adeoti – 537
    Lasun – 0

    Isokan
    Oyetola – 6,468
    Adeoti – 279
    Lasun – 13

    Iwo
    Oyetola – 9,432
    Adeoti – 2,543
    Lasun – 1

    Obokun
    Oyetola – 5,245
    Adeoti – 527
    Lasun – 2

    Odo Otin
    Oyetola – 7,735
    Adeoti – 384
    Lasun – 0

    Ola Oluwa
    Oyetola – 3,771
    Adeoti – 363
    Lasun – 0

    Olorunda
    Oyetola – 7,103
    Adeoti – 555
    Lasun – 1

    Oriade
    Oyetola – 10,935
    Adeoti – 438
    Lasun – 11

    Orolu
    Oyetola – 6,652
    Adeoti – 130
    Lasun – 0

    Osogbo
    Oyetola – 22,265
    Adeoti – 655
    Lasun – 170

    Final Result (total)
    Oyetola – 222,169
    Adeoti – 12,921
    Lasun – 460
    The build-up to Saturday’s primary highlighted a division within the ruling party in the state following a disagreement between incumbent Governor Oyetola and his predecessor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola.

    This prompted the former governor to seek to unseat Oyetola whom he supported to succeed him in September 2018. Aregbesola, who serves as the Minister of Interior in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet, has now declared his support for Adeoti, as his anointed candidate for the forthcoming election.

    The primary also came with drama and controversy as the members of the camps of the minister and governor traded blames and accusations, including accusing each side of instigating violence. Both sides denied doing anything to disturb the peace or to illegally influence the outcome of the poll.

    Notwithstanding the disagreement, the minister asked members of the party in the state loyal to him to conduct themselves in a peaceful matter throughout the exercise.

    While the primary was in progress, the faction of the APC loyal to the minister condemned it.

    In a statement by its spokesman, Abiodun Agboola, the faction alleged widespread irregularities in the exercise conducted by the Osun APC Primary Election Committee led by Governor Abdulrasaq of Kwara State.

    “The Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq led Osun APC Primary Election Committee should know that the primary lacks credibility and fairness,” it said.

    “It is necessary and important to inform the general public and Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq led Osun APC Primary Election Committee of the ongoing irregularities in the conduct of the primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State of Osun.

    “We strongly condemn the conduct of the primary election because it is nothing but a sham with a fraudulent process to favour Governor Adegboyega Oyetola. Verified information from the agents of Alhaji Moshood Adeoti, our governorship aspirant, has it that there are no records and result sheets in any of the 332 wards of the state.”

    Governor Oyetola, on his part commended the process, and described as free and fair after voting.

  • Osun APC Guber Primary: Aregbesola loses ward to Oyetola

    Osun APC Guber Primary: Aregbesola loses ward to Oyetola

    As the All Progressives Congress, APC, holds governorship primary election in Osun, the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola did not participate in the process, as he was said to have traveled out of the state for an urgent assignment.

    This is as the incumbent Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola won at the Minister’s ward 8 of Ilesa-East local government area of the state.

    However, APC Chairman in the ward, Adegoke Saheed lamented alleged removal of their supporters name from the voters’ register.

    He also disclosed that the absence of the Minister put them at a disadvantage as the Governor’s faction deployed power of incumbent against them.

    “It is unfortunate that the process did not go well at all. I challenged the register book they brought because it is not the register we used during the registration. I was the supervisor then. I supervised the whole ward. I appointed those that registered members at the units.

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    “During the accreditation, there were some people that belonged to us and their names could not be found in the register book they brought. I challenged them. I made them know that the register has been doctored. They did not listen because they are incumbent and they are many.

    “After the accreditation, I asked them what is the total number of accredited voters. They said they can’t tell me until after the voting. To my own knowledge, all the accredited members can not be up to 300. When they started counting, I started seeing so many faces that I didn’t know. I saw people from ward 4, ward 10 were all there, but they did not listen to me. They counted over 300 for Oyetola and after they counted 146 for us (Adeoti) they said they cannot count again. They disrupted the whole process and ended everything there,” Saheed lamented.

    However, in Osogbo local government where Senator Ajibola Basiru voted at Alaagba ward 7, the process was peaceful and he expressed optimism that Governor Oyetola will win the primary election.

    He added that unlike speculation that the exercise will be marred with violence, the exercise was free and fair.