Unic Press UK: The Osun state gubernatorial election, which was held on Saturday, the 22nd September 2018 is inconclusive, says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
In a statement issued Sunday, INEC’s national commissioner Solomon Soyebi said: “. . . the margin between the two leading candidates is 353, which is lower than the number of registered voters in the affected areas. Extant law and INEC guideline and regulations provide that where such a situation occurs, a declaration may not be made.”
INEC says a rerun election in the affected areas would hold on Thursday, the 27 September 27 to conclude collation and possibly declare a winner.
Breaking:
STATEMENT ISSUED BY INEC ON THE OSUN GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION… pic.twitter.com/yJ2DUkpvXb— INEC Nigeria (@inecnigeria) September 23, 2018
Reacting to INEC decision, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), said their party’s candidate Ademola Adeleke had won given the provisions of the Nigeria Constitution in Section 179(2)(a)(b), which reads: “(2) A candidate for an election to the office of Governor of a State shall be deemed to have been duly elected where, there being two or more candidates –
(a) he has the highest number of votes cast at the election; and
(b) he has not less than one-quarter of all the votes cast in each of at least two-thirds of all the local government areas in the State.”
It is obvious that having failed in their schemes to alter the final results due to the resistance of the people, the @OfficialAPCNg had to bear pressure on @inecnigeria to declare the election inconclusive so as to pave way for the perfection of their manipulative schemes
— Official PDP Nigeria (@OfficialPDPNig) September 23, 2018