The Independent National Electoral Commission
has fixed September 27th for Osun State governorship rerun.
INEC claims that irregularities which marred the election at some polling units in Ife North, Ife South and Orolu local government areas, had caused the action.
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ademola Adeleke, had polled 254,698 votes to defeat that of the All Progressives Congress, Gboyega Oyetola, who polled 254,698 votes.
The Returning Officer and Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Prof Joseph Fowape on announcing the result, enlisted cases of card reader malfunctioning, ballot box snatching, among others, as some of the ugly incidents that occurred which according to him led to the cancellation of about 3,498 votes recorded in the affected polling units.
Quoting INEC’s Standing Rules at the commission’s headquarters in Osogbo, the state capital, Prof Joseph Fowape, said since the margin between the two leading candidates was lower than the registered cancelled votes, the election had to be declared inconclusive.
#OsunDecidesDeclearedInconclusivebyINEC.
INEC claims that irregularities which marred the election at some polling units in Ife North, Ife South and Orolu local government areas, had caused the action.
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ademola Adeleke, had polled 254,698 votes to defeat that of the All Progressives Congress, Gboyega Oyetola, who polled 254,698 votes.
The Returning Officer and Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Prof Joseph Fowape on announcing the result, enlisted cases of card reader malfunctioning, ballot box snatching, among others, as some of the ugly incidents that occurred which according to him led to the cancellation of about 3,498 votes recorded in the affected polling units.
Quoting INEC’s Standing Rules at the commission’s headquarters in Osogbo, the state capital, Prof Joseph Fowape, said since the margin between the two leading candidates was lower than the registered cancelled votes, the election had to be declared inconclusive.
#OsunDecidesDeclearedInconclusivebyINEC.
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