{"id":2801,"date":"2022-07-20T11:43:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T11:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2022-07-20T11:43:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T11:43:52","slug":"osun-votes-out-incumbent-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/osun-votes-out-incumbent-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Osun Votes Out Incumbent Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Osun State governorship election held on Saturday, 16<sup>th<\/sup> July 2023 and\u00a0 Senator Ademola Adeleke of the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) was declared winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday, 17<sup>th<\/sup> July 2022. He secured 403,371 votes to beat his closest rival, incumbent Governor of Osun State and candidate of the All progressives Congress (APC) in the election, Adegboyega Oyetola, who scored 375,027 votes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, a platform\nof more than 80 civil society organisations observed the election and issued\nstatements. Situation Room noted among others, that the election was peaceful\ndespite the backdrop of apprehension and speculations of violence. Situation\nRoom also commended the high rate of Permanent Voter\u2019s Cards (PVCs) collection\n(1,518,303 voters). It reported that INEC\u2019s Bi-modal Voter Accreditation System\n(BVAS) machines functioned properly during the election and 99.4% polling unit\nresults were uploaded on INEC\u2019s Result Viewing portal as at 11pm on election\nday. Priority voting was available for the elderly and persons with\ndisabilities (PWDs), although a few polling units observed were located in&nbsp; areas with staircases, making it inaccessible\nto PWDs. However, open negotiations for vote buying were observed in many\npolling units, with coded communication and coupons used to extract commitments\nfrom voters, as opposed to physical exchange of cash. The voter turnout for the\nelection &#8211; 827,218 voters, is 42.37% of 1,952,387 registered voters and 54.48%\nof 1,518,303 voters who have collected their PVCs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike the 2018 Osun State governorship election,\nwhich saw a controversial run-off election between Ademola Adeleke and\nAdegboyega Oyetola, who were also the candidates of the PDP and APC,\nrespectively at the time, the 2022 election was adjudged peaceful. The peaceful\nnature of the election and the increase in PVCs collected, as well as the\nturnout of voters portend a positive outlook for the upcoming 2023 general\nelections. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Osun State governorship election held on Saturday, 16th July 2023 and\u00a0 Senator Ademola Adeleke of the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) was declared winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday, 17th July 2022. He secured 403,371 votes to beat his closest rival, incumbent Governor of Osun State and candidate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2809,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions\/2809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}