Osun election: Oyebamiji defeats Adeleke at Bisi Akande’s polling unit

All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate Bola Oyebamiji has won the polling unit of former Osun State Governor Bisi Akande in Saturday’s governorship election.
Oyebamiji secured 181 votes at Polling Unit 12, Ward 4, Atogbade area of Ila-Orangun, Ila Local Government Area, while the incumbent governor and Accord Party candidate, Ademola Adeleke, received 121 votes.
Akande, a former governor of the state and founding interim national chairman of the APC, cast his ballot at the polling unit earlier in the day.
The result gives Oyebamiji a 60-vote margin over Adeleke at the former governor’s polling unit.
Akande served as Osun governor between 1999 and 2003 under the All...