Sunday, August 10, 2014

OSUN 2015 - Aregbesola Wins Osun Governorship Election

Photo credit: Ben Ezemalu/PREMIUM TIMES

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress has won Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State.

To emerge winner of the election contested by 20 political parties, Mr. Aregbesola polled a total of 394,684 votes, winning the highest number of votes in 22 of the 30 Local Government Areas of the state.

His closest challenger, Iyiola Omisore of the People’s Democratic Party, polled 292,747 votes to come second. He won in eight local government areas.  The Labour party candidate, Fatai Akinbade, received a paltry 8,898 votes to come a distant third.



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