Upset as late Isiaka Adeleke’s brother floors Aregbesola, wins Osun by-election for PDP
In what can be referred to as a big blow to State of Osun Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s popularity, a United States-based businessman, Mr Ademola Adeleke, has caused a political upset in the by-election of Osun West Senatorial District.
Ademola, the younger brother to the late Senator Isiaka Adeleke (a.k.a. Serubawon), who is also the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has defeated the candidate of Governor Aregbesola and the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mudashiru Hussain as he has been declared winner of the by-election.
Ademola Adeleke, who contested the poll on the platform of the PDP, won the poll with a total of 97,480 votes to defeat Mudashiru Hussain of the APC who received 66,116 votes.
Announcing the results of the election in Iwo, the INEC residential electoral commissioner for the election, Baritor Kpagih, said Adeleke won nine out of the 10 local government areas where the election was held.
Kpagih therefore returned Ademola, the PDP candidate as senator to complete the tenure of the late Isiaka Adeleke , his elder brother who died on April 23.
He gave the breakdown of the election result as follows:
LG
PARTY
NUMBER OF VOTES
Aiyedaade
APC
7,179
PDP
9,091
Egbedore
APC
4,768
PDP
7,142
Ejigbo
APC
12,226
PDP
9,723
Aiyediire
APC
5,360
PDP
5,789
Olaoluwa
APC
5,316
PDP
5,618
Iwo
APC
12,205
PDP
12,547
Irewole
APC
8,953
PDP
9,094
Ede North
APC
2,784
PDP
18,559
Ede South
APC
2,096
PDP
13,406
Isokan
APC
5,227
PDP
6,539
Total
APC
66,116
PDP
97,480
