Osun guber: Why Aregbesola won: When, yesterday morning, the Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Prof. Bamitale Omole, announced the final results of the governorship election in Osun State, not a few people heaved a sigh of relief. According to the erudite scholar, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress (APC), scored a total votes of 394, 684 to beat his arch rival, Senator Iyiola Omisore of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to a second position with 292, 747 votes. In retrospect, the battle for the soul of Osun, as it concerned Omisore, started as far back as 1999 during the advent of this democratic dispensation. Since then, he has left nobody in doubt that he has the passion to serve the state reputed to be of the Living Spring. And for Aregbesola, the battle started, perhaps, in 2006/2007. And like Omisore, he has since been telling whoever cares to listen that he harbours a burning desire to turn the state around for good. The two political combatants then started oiling their political machinery towards the battle ahead. While Omisore was warming up to succeed his former boss, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, on a platter of gold in 2011, Aregbesola had earlier thrown his hat into the ring in 2007 to slug it out with Oyinlola, with a view to wresting power from him before Omisore could cause any electoral havoc to his ambition. But as it turned out, the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), declared Oyinlola winner and Aregbesola and his then Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), cried blue murder. The legal battle to redress the perceived electoral injustice dragged on for three and a half years before an Appeal Court sitting in Ibadan, in November 2010, returned the mandate to Aregbesola. That threw spanners in the political permutations of Omisore, whose posters and billboards had been conspicuously displaced across the state. So, with Aregbesola’s ascendancy to the governorship in November 2010, the political aspiration of Omisore, who was then in the Senate, was put in jeopardy as Aregbesola’s power of incumbency swept all elected PDP members out of all the elected offices in the state in 2011. Starting from the local government level, state House of Assembly to the National Assembly, Aregbesola’s political influence overwhelmed the PDP and. therefore, he succeeded in replacing office holders with ACN materials. THE RESULT LG APC PDP LP Ede North 15, 403 10, 427 54 Ifelodun 17, 447 12, 442 96 Ayedaade 12, 801 11, 255 137 Obokun 11, 696 8, 617 84 Iwo 20, 827 15, 493 790 Irewole 18, 328 10, 330 117 Osogbo 39, 983 11,513 673 Olorunda 26, 551 8, 483 410 Atakumosa East 9, 287 6, 294 120 Ife South 7, 325 12, 495 146 Ejigbo 17, 700 12, 495 391 Ifedayo 4, 225 3, 982 17 Boluwaduro 4, 891 5, 035 19 Ilesa East 16, 106 5, 913 44 Odo Otin 11, 950 12, 902 518 Ilesa West 15, 427 5, 449 32 Boripe 12, 723 9, 344 249 Ila Orangun 10, 825 7, 916 43 Oriade 12, 523 10, 214 136 Orolu 8, 558 6, 786 440 Atakumosa West 6, 928 5, 142 76 Ede South 11, 738 7, 462 46 Irepodun 13, 314 7, 386 343 Ife Central 9, 680 24, 555 102 Ife East 13, 821 20, 831 297 Olaoluwa 7, 927 4, 963 2, 476 Ife North 8, 673 9, 841 265 Isokan 9, 758 10, 028 197 Egbedore 10, 615. 7, 024 157 Ayedire 8, 724 7, 813 423 TOTAL 394,694 294, 747 8, 898. Original link Read More goo.gl/7W2uQV (y) ✍comment ☏share
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