President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ademola Adeleke, following the victory of the party in Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State.
The President’s congratulatory message was conveyed in a statement by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, yesterday in Abuja.
President Buhari expressed conviction that with the election over, the people of Osun State had expressed their will through the ballot, saying that the will of the people must always matter and must be respected in a democracy.
According to the President, the successful conduct of the election was a further testimony to the maturity and commitment of all stakeholders – the electoral body, security agencies, political parties, the media, civil society, and the electorate to further strengthen the integrity of the electoral process in the country.
Buhari reassured the nation that the commitment of this administration “toward having credible elections remains unshaken”.
INEC Returning Officer for the Osun gubernatorial election, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, yesterday declared Adeleke as the winner of the election, which was held on July 16.
He announced that Adeleke polled 403,371 votes to defeat his closest rival, Gov. Gboyega Oyetola, the candidate of the APC, who scored 375,027 votes.
Ogundipe, who is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, said that the Action Democratic Party (ADP) scored 10,104, to come third. He also said that the Accord Party candidate scored 4,515 and came fourth.
