By Musa Tanimu Nasidi
Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola emerged the winner of the All Progressives Congress, APC, primary election conducted on Saturday.
Oyetola was announced the candidate of the party in the coming July 16 governorship election in Osun State.
Three aspirants contested alongside Oyetola. They included former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Lasun Yusuff and a former Secretary to the State Government, Moshood Adeoti.
Announcing the result in the early hours of Sunday at the State’s APC secretariat in Osogbo, Osun APC Primary Election Committee, led by Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq of Kwara State said accredited voters were 247,207, while the total votes cast was 235,550.
Oyetola beat the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola’s candidate, Adeoti with a wide margin of 222,169 votes to 12921, respectively while Lasun polled 460 votes.
Speaking, the chairman of the party in Osun State, Prince Gboyega Famodun thanked the Primary Election Committee for, according to him, conducting credible polls.
The results below:
Atakunmosa East LG
Registered vote: 8628
Accredited: 2917
Oyetola: 2637
Adeoti: 165
Lasun
Atakunmosa West LG
Reg: 8964
Acc: 5055
Oyetola: 4655
Adeoti: 305
Lasun: 07
Ayedaade LG
Reg: 15185
Acc: 4371
Oyetola: 3615
Adeoti: 540
Lasun
Ayedire
Reg: 6763
Acc: 3664
Oyetola: 3204
Adeoti: 279
Lasun: 03
Boluwaduro
Reg: 9422
Acc: 6527
Oyetola: 6399
Adeoti: 62
Lasun:
Boripe
Reg: 18410
Acc: 15531
Oyetola: 15034
Adeoti: 05
Lasun:
Ede North
Reg: 11908
Acc: 0834
Oyetola: 0110
Adeoti: 311
Lasun: 02
Ede south
Total no of voters — 7372
Accredited voters — 3525
Gboyega Oyetola — 2664
Yusuf Lasun — 0
Moshood Adeoti — 628
Egbedore
Reg: 10089
Acc: 6334
Oyetola: 5500
Adeoti: 420
Lasun:
Ejigbo
Reg: 12579
Acc: 8367
Oyetola: 8007
Adeoti: 360
Lasun:
Ife Central
Reg: 14331
Acc: 11881
Oyetola: 10843
Adeoti: 334
Lasun: 01
Ifedayo LGA
Total no of voters — 6586
Accredited voters — 4678
Gboyega Oyetola — 4214
Yusuf Lasun — 0
Moshood Adeoti — 141
Ife East
Total no of voters — 15922
Accredited voters — 12529
Gboyega Oyetola — 12030
Yusuf Lasun — 0
Moshood Adeoti — 326
Ifelodun
Reg: 16789
Acc: 12971
Oyetola: 11873
Adeoti: 631
Lasun: 27
Ife North
Reg: 9329
Acc: 3795
Oyetola: 3377
Adeoti: 242
Lasun: 05
Ife South LGA
Total no of voters — 11435
Accredited voters — 8673
Gboyega Oyetola — 8268
Yusuf Lasun — 0
Moshood Adeoti — 043
Ila
Reg: 11359
Acc: 9223
Oyetola: 8834
Adeoti: 47
Lasun:
Ilesa East
Reg: 11132
Acc: 5846
Oyetola: 4857
Adeoti: 483
Lasun: 1
Ilesa West
Reg: 11552
Acc: 4660
Oyetola: 3877
Adeoti: 446
Lasun:
Irepodun
Reg: 20563
Acc: 9692
Oyetola: 7928
Adeoti: 732
Lasun: 294
Irewole
Reg: 14085
Acc: 8432
Oyetola: 7560
Adeoti: 537
Lasun:
Isokan
Reg: 14366
Acc: 6899
Oyetola: 6468
Adeoti: 279
Lasun: 13
Iwo
Reg: 24543
Acc: 14690
Oyetola: 9432
Adeoti: 2543
Lasun: 01
Obokun
Reg: 13048
Acc: 5910
Oyetola: 5245
Adeoti: 527
Lasun: 02
Odo-Otin
Reg: 14304
Acc: 8119
Oyetola: 7735
Adeoti: 384
Lasun:
Olaoluwa
Reg: 8747
Acc: 4134
Oyetola: 3771
Adeoti: 363
Lasun:
Olorunda
Reg: 18402
Acc: 8087
Oyetola: 7103
Adeoti: 555
Lasun: 01
Oriade
Reg: 16186
Acc: 11384
Oyetola: 10935
Adeoti: 438
Lasun: 11
Orolu
Reg: 8927
Acc: 7768
Oyetola: 6652
Adeoti: 130
Lasun:
Osogbo
Reg: 37771
Acc: 23711
Oyetola: 22265
Adeoti: 655
Lasun: 170
Total: 408697
Acc: 247207
Cast: 235550
Oyetola: 222169
Lasun: 460
Adeoti: 12921