Oyetola Wins Osun APC Guber Primaries

The Governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola, has been declared the winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election in the state.
Oyetola, who is seeking re-election, polled 222,169, votes to defeat his closest rival, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti, the preferred candidate of the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, who scored 12,921.
The governor won in all the 30 local government areas of the state in the direct primary election on Saturday.
He also defeated a former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr Lasun Yusuf, who scored 460 votes.
The Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazak, Chairman of the Primary Election Committee, announced the results at about 3.00 a.m at the APC Secretariat in Osogbo yesterday.
AbdulRazak said that the total registered voters for the exercise was 408,697.
The chairman added that the total number of accredited voters was 247, 207, while the total votes cast was 235,550.
He said: ”I, Abdulrahman AbdulRazak, the Chairman, Primary Election Committee, hereby certified that Adegboyega Isiaka Oyetola, having scored the highest votes cast in Osun governorship primary election held on February 19 and met all requirements as contained in the guidelines of the election is hereby declared the winner.”
In his remarks, the Chairman of APC in Osun State, Mr Gboyega Famodun, commended the committee for a job well done.
Famodun said the peaceful outcome of the primary had put an end to tension in the state.
He said the party would work towards the victory of Oyetola, who is now the party’s candidate for July 16 governorship election in the state.