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  • Adeleke wins Osun West bye-election

    Adeleke wins Osun West bye-election

    The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ademola Adeleke, has been declared winner of Saturday’s  Osun West senatorial election.

    The younger brother to late Senator Isiaka Adeleke, whose death on April 23 made the senatorial seat vacant, scored 97,480 votes to defeat his opponent, Mudasiru Hussain of the All Progressives Congress, who polled  66,116.

    The PDP candidate won nine out of the 10 local government areas in the district, while Hussain won only in Ejigbo council area.

    At the Baptist Day High School, Iwo, venue of the collation centre, the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti, Prof. Kaide Lawal, who is the chief returning officer, announced that “Having scored the highest number of votes and having certified the requirement of the law, Otunba (Dr.) Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is hereby declared WINNER of Osun West Senatorial Bye-Election and return elected.”

    The breakdown of votes for the election in the ten council areas of the senatorial district is as follows:

    AYEDIRE
    APC: 5360
    PDP: 5,789

    EDE NORTH:
    APC: 2784
    PDP: 18,559

    EDE SOUTH:
    APC: 2096
    PDP: 13,406

    EJIGBO:
    APC:12,229
    PDP: 9,723

    IWO:
    APC: 12,205
    PDP: 12,547

    IREWOLE:
    APC: 8,952
    PDP: 9096

    OLA-OLUWA:
    APC: 5,316
    PDP: 5,618

    EGBEDORE:
    APC: 4,768
    PDP: 7,142

    AYEDAADE:
    APC: 7,179
    PDP: 9,061

    ISOKAN:
    APC: 5,227
    PDP: 6,539

    TOTAL RESULT
    PDP:           97,480
    APC:           66,116
    ————
    MARGIN:    31,364

  • Osun bye-election: APC, PDP chieftains confident of parties’ victory

    Osun bye-election: APC, PDP chieftains confident of parties’ victory

    Chieftains of the APC and PDP, the two leading parties contesting in the  Osun West bye-election, have expressed confidence that their respective parties would win the election.

    Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) shortly after casting his vote at about  9 am at Ward 4, Unit 5, Gbongan Polling Unit,  Ayedade Local Government Area, APC chieftain, Mr Ismaila Alagbada, said the party had left no stone unturned in ensuring its victory.

    “Our party had taken all necessary steps and our expectation is victory. we expect nothing short of victory,’’ Alagbada, the Osun Commissioner for Commerce, Trade and Co-operatives, said.

    Mr Dotun Babayemi, another APC chieftain in  Gbongan,  also said he was confident his party’s  candidate, Sen. Mudashiru Hussein,  would win the Osun West Senatorial seat.

    Babayemi said this at St. Peter, Otun Balogun Ward 2, Unit One,  where he did his accreditation and also voted.

    “We are very confident the APC and its candidate will be successful.

    “ Our party had launched series of  campaign in the town and the entire local government to create awareness for this election,’’ he said.

    In his own assessment of the election, Sen. Akinlabi Olasunkanmi, a one-term PDP senator and former Minister of Youth Development, said the bye-election would favour the PDP.

    Olasunkanmi,  who voted at Ward 5 Unit 16,  in Ode-Omu, Ayedade Local Government Area , however,  expressed the hope that there would not be voters’ apathy.

    He urged INEC to remain independent and neutral to ensure a credible poll.

    ” If there is a level playing ground, I am quite confident our party’s candidate will be elected senator,’’ he said.

    NAN reports that all the party chieftains, however, agreed that the ongoing election was orderly and peaceful.

    They lauded INEC for the new system of accreditation and voting, saying with the process, voters spend less than two minutes to get accredited and cast their votes.

    They were all of the opinion that the process had  encouraged  a high turnout of voters for the election.

    The election was prompted by the death on April 23 of  Sen. Isiaka Adeleke, who was representing the district at the Senate.

    Although 12 political parties are contesting in the bye- election, the two major contenders are the  PDP  and  APC.

    The younger brother of late Adeleke, Ademola, is the candidate of  PDP  while Mudashiru Husein, who represented the district between 2011 and 2014,  is the candidate of  APC.

  • Bye-election: Odigie-Oyegun leads APC campaign in Osun

    Bye-election: Odigie-Oyegun leads APC campaign in Osun

    The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on Thursday reaffirmed Federal Government’s commitment to finding solution to socio-economic and political challenges in the country.

    He made the promise when he led the leadership of the party on a campaign ahead of Saturday’s  bye election in Osun West Senatorial District.

    The seat became vacant following the death of the senator representing the district, Chief Isiaka Adeleke, on April 23.

    Odigie-Oyegun said the prevailing economic situation was not created by APC, adding that the federal government was working day and night to solve the problems.

    “APC will not disappoint Nigeria, and I want you all in the senatorial district to troop out and vote for our candidate, Mudashiru Husain,’’ he said.

    “I hope in the next four days I will be able to tell President Muhammadu Buhari that Aregbesola has delivered once again and Husain is back in the Senate.

    The APC chairman said since the party’s victory in the 2014 governorship election in Osun, it had not lost any major election in Nigeria.

    He commended the courage of the Governor Rauf Aregbesola, saying Osun was a major ground from where the APC launched itself to the federal level.

    According to Odigie-Oyegun, Osun is strategic to the party in all ramifications.

    “I want you to know how important this election is to us, and that is why you can see me and all other party members here.

    “As challenging as the situation in Borno is, the Governor, Kashim Shettima and the Kebbi Governor, Abdullahi Bagudu, came here to support us all.

    “We need Mudashiru Husain in the Senate, he is a ranking man.  He won’t sit at the back when he gets there. Osun will be represented well,” Odigie-Oyegun added.

    NAN

     

  • Sheriff predicts victory for PDP in Osun bye-election

    Sheriff predicts victory for PDP in Osun bye-election

    The National Chairman of People’s Democratic Party, Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff,   has predicted the victory of the party in the Osun West bye-election holding on Saturday.

    He said beginning of the transformation of PDP in Osun State would be established at the poll, adding that the “PDP in Osun is now one.”

    Addressing the PDP supporters at a campaign rally for the Osun West senatorial by-election at Apomu in Isokan Local Government Area of the state, Sheriff said: “Today is the day that begins the transformation of the PDP, Osun state PDP are intact today and that  also shows that unity has come to Osun state,l. I want this unity to continue after Adeleke’s election. I am sure my friend, Senator Iyiola Omisore will agree with me.”

    He introduced the party’s candidate, the younger brother of late Isiaka Adeleke, Ademola, as the party flag bearer for the senatorial bye-election, urging people of the town to vote for PDP.

    Also speaking at the rally, the Osun State PDP Chairman, Hon. Soji Adagunodi, rallied support of party members for the candidature of Ademola Adeleke.

    Adagunodo, who charged the people to embark on house to house campaign to convince the electorate to vote for the party’s candidate, advised them to monitor their votes from the polling booth to the final collation center in Iwo, the senatorial district headquarters, in other to avoid manipulation of results.

    The party candidate, Ademola Adeleke, implored the party supporters to vote for him to end the tenure of the All Progressive Congress, the party which he he said had held the state by the jugular in the last seven years.

    He promised to continue with the giant strides of his late brother, late Senator Isiaka Adeleke, also pleading to disburse N25 million scholarship for each of the ten local governments in the senatorial district if in voted as senator.

    PDP chieftains in attendance at the rally include the party’s National Secretary, Prof.  Wale Oladipo, former Osun State governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Alhaji Fatai Akinbade, Senator Iyiola Omisore, House of Member representing Ibokun/Oriade, Hon.Oluwole Oke, Barr. Kayode Oduoye, Senator Olasunkumi Akinlabi, former Osun State PDP chairman,  Alhaji Ganiyu Ola-Oluwa, among others.

     

  • Hussain wins APC ticket for Osun West bye-election

    Hussain wins APC ticket for Osun West bye-election

    Mudashiru Hussain on Wednesday emerged the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the July 8 bye-election in Osun West senatorial district.

    He won the primary election held at the De Distinguished Event Centre, Egbedore local government area of the state.

    The Speaker of the Zamfara State House of Assembly, Sanusi Rikiji, who led the screening committee, declared Hussein winner of the election after polling 2, 412 out of 2,413 total valid votes.

    2, 560 delegates participated in the poll.

    Hussain had twice survived disqualification from the APC Screening Committee and the Appeal Committee but was cleared for the election by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) who intervened in the dispute.

    He was given the party’s ticket as sole aspirant following the defection of late Senator Isiaka Adeleke’s younger brother, Ademola, to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday.

    Adeleke also secured the PDP ticket on Wednesday.

     

  • Osun West bye- election: APC, PDP postpone primaries

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election in Osun West senatorial district has been postponed till Wednesday.

    The postponement was the second in the last three days.

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has also rescheduled its own primary for same day.

    The spokesman for APC in Osun State, Kunle Oyatomi, said the last postponement was due to Monday night’s decision of the party National Working Committee (NWC) to allow one of the two aspirants, Mudashiru Hussain, to participate in the primary.

    The party national screening committee led by the Speaker of Zamfara State House of Assembly, Hon. Sanusi Rikiji, on Sunday disqualified Hussain over his failure to resign as the state Commissioner for Cabinet Matters.

    Rikiji said Hussain was disqualified because the party guide lines stipulated that a candidate must not “remain as an employee of the public service 30 days to the election.”

    But Hussain claimed he has resigned his appointment and submitted his letter to Governor Rauf Aregbesola on June 6.

    Hussain and younger brother to late Isiaka Adeleke, Ademola are participating the primary election.

    The PDP Director of Publicity in Osun, Prince Bola Ajao, said the postponement was to allow the party to put its house in order.

    A former Minister Youth of Development, Olasunkanmi Akinlabi, and a retired army colonel, Olayiwola Falabi, are eyeing the PDP ticket for the senatorial bye-election.