{LIVE UPDATES} #OsunDecides2018: Voting Ends In Most Polling Units, Sorting Begins

Voting has ended in most polling units in today’s governorship election in the state of Osun.

However, voters on queue as at 2pm when the official voting time ends in line with INEC guidelines will still be allowed to exercise their civic responsibility.

Like previous elections, the Osun State Governorship Election witnessed simultaneous Accreditation and Voting.

It is the 5th time a governorship election will be held in the state after Nigeria’s return to democracy in 1999.

Today’s election will be the decider for who takes over from Governor Rauf Aregbesola who bows out on November 27, 2018 after the expiration of his second term.

The contest is between 48 political parties.

However, 5 candidates and their parties stand out as the major contenders. They are; Gboyega Oyetola of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Iyiola Omisore of the Social Democratic Party SDP, Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Moshood Adeoti of the Action Democratic Party ADP and Fatai Akinbade of the African Democratic Congress ADC.

Your dependable medium, Osun Defender will be bringing you live updates as events unfold.

You can send updates via @OsunDefender, #OsunDecides2018 or #OsunVotes

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11.00 PM As it stands, there are reports of violence in Ikoyi, Ward 2, Unit 2 with thugs belonging to the opposition parties causing mayhem to create tension and palpable fear in the minds of the electorate not to go out and cast their vote tomorrow. People of the area are calling on security operatives in the area to wade in.

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11.15 PM In Ayedire L.G, members of the PDP are said to be giving out N2,000 each to people who are willing to take it and collecting their Permanent Voter Cards. The other parties have informed the Police about the development wanting them to step in as soon as possible. There are also reports of the PDP crediting people’s accounts with the sum of N10, 000 after sending their bank account details to a link; https://bit.ly/2xlnw1N after which the voter receives the credit alert.

This is said to be another cunny way of vote buying which the PDP and other opposition parties are known for.

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12.00 AM Good morning and Welcome to the D-Day. Stay Tuned to this Channel as we provide up to speed news for you as voters go to decide the next Governor of Osun.

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UPDATE: Adeleke Planning To Run Into Exile 

The governorship candidate of the PDP, Senator Ademola Adeleke, might be on his way to the United States, immediately after the election.

Sources in his camp said he has dusted his American passport and has booked a first-class seat with a prominent airline in Lagos.

This relates to his impending arrest by the police for impersonation and examination malpractices, immediately after Saturday September 22 governorship election in Osun.

Adeleke has expressed worries to close confidants that the possibility of his arrest, detention, trial and jailing for trying to get a mercenary write Senior School Certificate Examination for him in 2017 has damaged his candidature beyond redemption. He was said to have been pained for being made the butt of jokes first for getting F9 in one subject in 1981 and for attempting to write the exam again in 2017.

The source told us that Adeleke said he thought that his reputation as a dancer would have connected him to the Youth and boosted his chance but he was surprised and shocked that most people had taken him to be irresponsible.

He expressed doubts that he would win the election in light of these developments.

He also thought that even if he won, which is a long shot, he would not have immunity and might still be arrested and jailed before being sworn in, thereby setting a bad precedent as the first governor elect or governorship candidate to be jailed after election.

He was not flattered that President Muhammadu Buhari stopped his arrest which he saw as a stunt by the president to appear to the international community as a promoter of the rule of law and respect for opposition. He is not in doubt that he would be arrested after the election, win or lose. This is why he has been careful about spending money, which might go down the drain in the end.

Some of his close aides are also not happy that he carries an American passport, instead of the Nigerian passport, the source added.

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12.05 AM There is security report that SDP thugs are planning to attack some notable APC chieftains especially Hon Folorunsso Bamisayemi. According to the report, the thugs intend to move from Abiri Ogudu enroute Iloro, Ile-Ife, Araromi, Oke-Odo through Oni-koko Junction. The spot is said to be at Ita-Maarun. There are also reports that the Leader of the gang is Oloka, Segun Abejo, Aro Ayanbeku, Ojo Bela and White among others in the area.

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7.30 AM Situation report from polling stations across Osun indicates that voters have as early as 6.30 AM trooped out to their respective polling stations in Osogbo, the state capital and other parts of the state. It is believed that many more will come out to check their names on the Voters Register shortly before simultaneous accreditation and voting commences at 8am.

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8.05 AM- In Ward 1, Unit 3 Obokun LGA, there are reports that PDP agents have gathered potential voters behind the polling unit without intervention from the security personnel. Security Agents are put on alert now!

There are also reports that PDP thugs are ready to snatch and destroy ballot boxes in areas where APC is strongest in order to force INEC to cancel election results in some areas. Osogbo is a major target. Voters are called on to protect the ballot boxes.

Here are live pictures from some polling units in across the state:

Turnout at the polling unit Opposite Seven Day Primary School 2, Ward 4 Unit 10 at Cottage Area, Ede is not really impressive. However, voters are still expected at the respective stations.

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8.30 AM The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Senator Ademola Adeleke has just voted at his Ward 2 unit 9, Agbogunde/Sagba in Ede North Local Government. After voting, he addressed reporters:

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8:50 AM Voting starts at Poling Unit 13, Ward 4, Fagbewesa, Osogbo LG

9 AM – Here are Voters at Polling Unit 30, Africa Primary School, Ward 4, Osogbo LG.

 

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As at 9.45 AM: Most Voters across the 332 wards oLA Sch Popo, PU 002 Iragbiji. f the State of Osun are casting their vote under a peaceful atmosphere. As it stands, the atmosphere is calm.

However, there are reports of massive vote buying by the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party PDP as well as voter inducement.

Reports from Ile Ife in Ife Central and Ife East Local Governments says that there is a low turnout of voters in the areas visited.

But in Osogbo, Ede, Ikirun, Iragbiji and other parts of the state, the turnout is massive from all segments.

There are also reports in some parts of the state about the functionality of the Card Readers but INEC insists that there are 3 Backups for respective Registration Areas across the State of Osun.

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10.08 AM – The Candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC in this election, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola has voted at his LA Sch Popo, PU 002 Iragbiji.

Speaking with newsmen, Oyetola lauded the process urging the Independent National Electoral Commission Officials across the state to replicate the good conduct so far across all polling units.

He also expressed optimism about winning the election.

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11.15 AM The candidate of the Social Democratic Party SDP, Senator Iyiola Omisore has also casted his vote at his  PU 3,ward 1, Ife east Local Government.

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1.30 PM As at this time, voting has been concluded in most polling units across the state with today’s poll witnessing a large turnout of voters across board. Majority of the major gladiators in the race for Abeere have also casted their votes with the declaration of results soon to happen.

2.00 PM Reports of mayhem and reported snatching of ballot boxes characterizing the end of voting at most polling stations. Voters are calling for the beefing up of security in major locations like Ife, Osogbo, Olorunda among other local government areas.

2.10 PM Meanwhile in several areas, sorting and counting of votes have begun in most polling areas across the state.

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2.30 PM Results have started trickling in from polling units across the state. While the ruling APC is garnering votes that may possibly make it stage a comeback in November, the PDP and notably SDP have some votes making the contest more keen.

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As at 4PM, the following were the timeline of results per ward in every local government area in Osun. This is the Situation Report for all Local Governments in the state:

S/N	LG        Name	Reported            PU	APC	PDP	AD	ADC	SDP	ADP	Invalid	TOtal
1	ATAKUMOSA            EAST	3	265	161	1	2	95	20	33	577
2	ATAKUMOSA            WEST	3	168	105	0	2	35	9	0	319
3	AYEDAADE	4	233	96	0	5	87	70	39	530
4	AYEDIRE	2	167	148	0	9	72	51	0	447
5	BOLUWADURO	5	231	111	0	13	66	52	9	482
6	BORIPE	2	296	104	0	2	50	42	0	494
7	EDE      NORTH	3	86	300	0	7	14	2	0	409
8	EDE      SOUTH	3	81	201	0	1	14	11	2	310
9	EGBEDORE	3	386	198	0	10	235	18	0	847
10	EJIGBO	5	435	300	0	79	131	11	53	1009
11	IFE            CENTRAL	7	299	140	0	4	675	37	17	1172
12	IFEDAYO	2	173	197	0	0	977	2	51	1400
13	IFE       EAST	4	378	278	0	0	178	17	43	894
14	IFELODUN	2	168	100	0	1	52	26	14	361
15	IFE       NORTH	5	261	284	0	1	65	2	15	628
16	IFE       SOUTH	10	891	1,038	0	13	145	201	4	2292
17	ILA	4	361	253	0	5	126	10	8	763
18	ILESA   EAST	8	911	350	0	2	432	83	64	1842
19	ILESA   WEST	2	137	137	0	0	25	27	23	349
20	IREPODUN	6	315	310	1	23	162	103	75	989
21	IREWOLE	2	124	176	0	0	9	32	0	341
22	ISOKAN	1	86	47	0	1	65	3	0	202
23	IWO	11	493	205	5	73	339	936	21	2072
24	OBOKUN	2	295	274	0	1	105	18	16	709
25	ODO-OTIN	4	370	283	1	33	29	16	22	754
26	OLA-OLUWA	6	687	222	0	96	145	78	8	1236
27	OLORUNDA	6	1,150	350	0	10	295	77	0	1882
28	ORIADE	5	344	285	0	2	46	23	19	719
29	OROLU	5	283	329	0	3	87	25	0	727
30	OSOGBO	13	1,007	303	0	15	306	68	64	1763

 

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5 PM – Security report across all local governments reveal that there is peaceful atmosphere everyone.

Massive Turnout, Peaceful Atmosphere As Osun Residents Elect New Governor

 Saturday’s governorship election in the State of Osun held in a peaceful atmosphere as residents trooped out to choose who leads them for the next 4 years.

According to security report, most of the areas in the 30 local governments and Area office in Modakeke were largely peaceful with no skirmishes.

Projected Hot-Spots like Ife-North, Ife-South, Ede North, Boluwaduro, Irewole and Ayedire Local Governments proved seamless as the atmosphere was calm throughout the voting process.

Places like Ede-South, Ife Central, Boripe, Ejigbo which had little skirmishes at the onset were later resolved.

However, security threats were posed by Politicians mostly of the major opposition parties in Atakunmosa East, Atakunmosa West, Egbedore, Ife East and Ayedaade Local Governments but were nipped in the bud by security operatives who were responsive to making the electoral process free, fair and credible.

Despite the little infractions, Today’s governorship election was relatively peaceful in majority of the units, wards and local governments in the State of Osun.

 

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6 PM :- Results Compilation After 5pm reveals that:-

 

S/N                LG Name                           No. of Wards     No. of PU    Reported PU     Reg. Voters     PVC Collected

1 ATAKUMOSA EAST	10	68	9	69,816	56,453
2 ATAKUMOSA WEST	11	67	8	65,532	38,112
3 AYEDAADE	11	132	10	108,785	68,131
4 AYEDIRE	10	53	9	76,903	46,226
5 BOLUWADURO	10	70	14	48,426	31,920
6 BORIPE	11	76	15	117,317	88,459
7 EDE NORTH	11	121	8	79,486	53,096
8 EDE SOUTH	10	75	8	70,638	56,896
9 EGBEDORE	10	52	8	39,150	61,163
10 EJIGBO	11	92	9	86,044	68,574
11 IFE CENTRAL	11	167	15	162,912	100,503
12 IFEDAYO	10	61	9	35,407	22,812
13 IFE EAST	10	91	15	74,967	134,060
14 IFELODUN	12	104	8	98,936	71,538
15 IFE NORTH	10	90	8	79,910	51,339
16 IFE SOUTH	11	122	20	115,296	82,693
17 ILA	11	124	6	57,708	38,814
18 ILESA EAST	11	94	21	141,778	110,445
19 ILESA WEST	10	93	8	83,710	62,449
20 IREPODUN	11	127	10	70,425	45,034
21 IREWOLE	11	119	10	91,714	60,775
22 ISOKAN	11	67	6	84,082	53,459
23 IWO	15	144	21	168,028	107,434
24 OBOKUN	10	83	6	82,855	46,453
25 ODO-OTIN	15	111	12	99,767	61,435
26 OLA-OLUWA	10	51	10	78,802	52,052
27 OLORUNDA	11	115	15	183,740	108,309
28 ORIADE	12	106	5	65,286	40,847
29 OROLU	10	83	12	63,944	41,722
30 OSOGBO	15	218	33	269,578	180,604

 

Accredited Voters	APC	PDP               AD	ADC	SDP                ADP		Invalid Votes
	1,179	1,078	2	33	260	203	86
	536	677	0	16	268	71	36
	956	810	0	91	382	206	39
	671	737	0	45	340	220	6
	704	623	0	19	272	102	21
	2,015	1,315	0	9	489	309	0
	309	1,095	0	9	29	24	0
	443	1,477	0	3	57	24	14
	795	876	0	15	421	46	0
	1,047	913	0	101	221	25	67
	596	314	0	11	1,517	61	17
	631	416	0	6	2,120	20	113
363	1,064	998	0	68	911	50	151
221	604	329	0	4	335	28	14
	424	440	0	1	143	2	59
	1,914	2,258	0	44	318	439	103
	515	422	1	8	189	13	9
	2,406	1,913	0	5	934	132	496
	546	532	3	9	169	137	126
720	463	475	1	29	216	139	88
	687	893	7	26	61	106	0
	728	1,028	0	12	305	60	0
401	1,167	787	5	151	687	2,160	43
	758	1,068	0	6	231	42	16
547	949	860	3	95	115	135	85
	1,113	596	0	213	530	149	8
	2,710	1,509	204	12	840	109	126
	344	285	0	2	46	23	19
	803	889	0	4	171	55	0
	3,085	1,747	0	38	1,068	259	64
	30,162	27,360	226	1,085	13,645	5,349	1,806

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7 PM :- Various Results from different areas are in with hopes high from different sides. The Independent National Electoral Commission will any moment from now give official results to ascertain the level of successes of political parties in the race.

Osun Decides: CP Confirms 3 Buses, 42 Motorcycles Impounded Over Violation of Restriction Order

Toba Adedeji

The Commissioner of Police for election, Ikire axis, Mr. Kayode Egbetokun has confirmed that the police impounded 42 motorcycles for violating restriction order.

Mr. Kayode said this while addressing our correspondent on situation report at Ikire.

He noted that, the process of election is peaceful at his jurisdiction.

He stressed that, “No arrest was made yet in this jurisdiction but few people who flouted restriction order, their cars and motorcycles were impounded; 42 motorcycles and 3 buses which will be released to the owners after the election.”

“So far, everything is calm in this area, even the area where fighting was recorded my officials have restored peace to the area and we are on our toes now because this time, ballot boxes will be intended to be snatched but we have beefed up the security in all areas, he concluded.”