(BREAKING) Osun APC primary: Oyetola declared winner

Kwara State governor, Razak Abdulrahaman, who is the chairman of the committee in charge of the APC primary election in Osun state has declared the state governor, Gboyega Oyetola as winner of Saturday APC governorship primary election.

This has made Oyetola be the standard-bearer of the party for the July 16 governorship election in the state.

The committee chairman disclosed that Oyetola polled the highest votes of 222,169 out of the total votes cast of 235,550.

The committee collated the results of the votes in the presence of party agents, independent observers, INEC and other designated officials after returning officers came out one after another to present results from their various local government areas to the election committee. The chairman said one of the other two aspirants in the election, Moshood Adeoti, polled 12,921 votes, while the third, Yusuf Lasun polled 460 votes.

He said, “Total registered votes of members in all local government across the state was

408,697. Accredited voters were 247,207 while 235,550 eventually cast their votes.”

Rasak Abdulrahaman appreciated all stakeholders in the party for making the election a free and fair one and charged them to work for deeper unity and progress of the party.