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Senator Ademola Adeleke Wins 2022 Osun Gubernatorial Elections

Jul 17, 2022   •   by Ottoabasi Abasiekong   •   Source: WebTV   •   eye-icon 294 views

Senator Ademola Nurudeen Adeleke of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has emerged as the winner of the 2022 Osun state gubernatorial elections. According to the Chief Returning Officer for the election and the Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Professor Temitope Ogundipe, Senator Ademola Adeleke polled 403,371 votes to defeat his closest rival, the incumbent Governor Mr. Adegboyega Oyetola of the All-Progressives Congress party, who clinched 375,027 votes.

 

In what was described as a political upset in Nigeria’s fourth republic election cycle, Senator Adeleke won in 17 out of the 30 local government areas in the state.


According to political analysts, this development has weakened the grip of the ruling All Progressives Congress party in the South-West region, which is the base of the Presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

 

From a historical perspective, this is the first time in the nation’s history that a family will produce two Governors in a state. Prince Isiaka Adeleke(Late), the elder brother of Senator Ademola Adeleke, was the first civilian Governor of Osun State in the botched third republic from 1992 to 1993.

 

The election was considered free and fair with few cases of violence and intimidation of voters, which is an encouragement to Nigerian citizens that the electoral process is on a positive trajectory.

 

The Osun State Governor-elect is a Nigerian politician and businessman; he was a Senator representing the Osun-west senatorial district between 2017 and 2019. He is from the Adeleke family of Ede in Osun State.

 

With his victory, Senator Adeleke will be responsible for managing Osun state’s debt, improving the ease of doing business, improving the state’s internally generated revenue (IGR), and increasing investments in healthcare, education and social development to unlock economic opportunities.

 

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