Oyetola defeats Aregbesola’s candidate to win Osun APC governorship primary

The Governor of Osun state, Adegboyega Oyetola, has won the governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) conducted on Saturday.

Announcing the result on Sunday, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, the Chairman of the governorship primary committee and Kwara State Governor, confirmed Oyetola won the election.

Oyetola garnered 222,169 votes, against 12,921 votes that his closest challenger, Moshood Adeoti got. He also said another of Oyetola’s challenger, Lasun Yusuf, got 460 votes and placed third.

He said a total of 408,697 voters registered in the primary election of the party, while 247, 207 voters were accredited to vote. The total vote cast and valid votes were 235,550.

Abdulrazaq said Oyetola won in all the 30 local government areas in the state.

In his remarks, Osun APC chairman, Gboyega Famoodun, commended the diligence of the committee, security agencies and others that worked for the success of the exercise.

Oyetola defeated Adeoti, a former secretary to the state government, at the ward of the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, in Saturday’s APC governorship primary.

But the Rasaq Salinsile-led faction of the party to which the minister belongs, rejected the result. The faction claimed that the exercise was fraught with irregularities.