Senator Ademola Adeleke has been declared the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State ahead of the election in July.
Adeleke was declared winner of the primary held at Osogbo City Stadium under the supervision of Deputy Governor of Bayelsa, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo.
Ewhrudjakpo said Adeleke scored 1, 887 votes, while his closet rival Sanya Omirin scored four votes.
The primary was supervised by the party’s representatives from Abuja, as well as officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Ewhrudjakpo said that a total of 1916 votes were recorded, while 24 votes were invalid.
“By the power conferred on me as the chief returning officer of this gubernatorial primary, we, hereby collectively declared Adeleke Ademola Jackson, as the winner of this gubernatorial primary for 2022 governorship election in Osun,” he said.
Ewhrudjakpo urged all other aspirants to join hands with the winner to enable the party to win the July 16 governorship election in the state.
In his acceptance speech, Adeleke said that there was “no victor, no vanquished” in the primary election.
However, another primary was held simultaneously by an aggrieved group at the Women and Children Development Initiative Foundation (WOCDIF), Osogbo where Dotun Babayemi was declared the winner. There were no party representatives from Abuja and INEC officials.
