(UPDATED): Ademola Adeleke declared winner of Osun PDP governorship primary poll

▪︎ Prince Dotun Babayemi “wins” at a parallel primary election

Former Senator Ademola Adeleke was on Tuesday declared winner of the governorship primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State.

The governorship election is scheduled to hold on July 16.

The PDP primary, held at the 10,000 capacity Oshogbo stadium, was also contested by Dotun Babayemi.

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The primary election held amid allegation of bias and litigations which could have stalled the process.

Senator Adeleke was also the PDP’s standard bearer in 2018 when he lost to incumbent Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress.

At the primary election held at the Osogbo City Stadium, under the supervision of Deputy Governor of Bayelsa, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, as Chairman of the Osun Governorship primary, Senator Adeleke was declared the winner.

While declaring Adeleke as the winner, Ewhrudjakpo said that he scored 1,887 votes, while his closet rival Sanya Omirin scored four votes.

The primary election was supervised by the party’s representatives from Abuja, as well as officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Ewhrudjakpo said that other aspirants, Dele Adeleke scored one vote, Fatai Akinbade, Dotun Babayemi and Akin Ogunbiyi, recorded zero.

He said that a total of 1,916 votes were recorded, while 24 votes were invalid.

“By the power conferred on me as the Chief Returning Officer of this gubernatorial primary election, I hereby declared Adeleke Ademola Jackson, as the winner of this gubernatorial primary for 2022 governorship election in Osun,” he said.

Ewhrudjakpo said that there was no parallel congress in the state.

At another primary election held at the Women and Children Development Initiative Foundation (WOCDIF), Osogbo, there was no party’s representatives from Abuja and INEC representatives were absent, where Prince Dotun Babayemi, was declared the winner.

At the WOCDIF Centre, Mr Adelani Ajanaku, the Returning Officer, said that Babayemi scored 1,781 votes, while his closet rival, Adeleke scored 32 votes.

Ajanaku said that Fatai Akinbade scored 28 votes, Ogunbiyi 23 votes and Omirin polled 16 votes, respectively.

He said that 1,907 votes were recorded, with 27 voided.

In his acceptance speech, Babayemi said he was grateful to all his brothers and co-contestants, who voluntarily allowed him to fly the party’s flag.