The incumbent governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke, has won his re-election bid after defeating 14 other candidates to win Saturday’s governorship election in the state.

Mr Adeleke of the Accord party was formally declared the winner of the election by the INEC returning officer, Joshua Ogunwole, on Sunday morning at the INEC headquarters in Osogbo, the Osun State capital.

The governor scored a total of 511,067 votes while his closest challenger, Bola Oyebamiji of the APC, scored 444,815 votes.

Mr Adeleke also won in 19 of the state’s 30 local government areas while Mr Oyebamiji won in 11.

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See the final result below:

Accredited voters 1,010,604

Accord 511,067

APC 444,815

AAC 1458

ADC 17180

ADP 2946

APGA 1474

APM 234

APP 114

BP 111

NNPP 118

PRP 83

SDP 155

YPP 534

ZLP 2482

TOTAL VALID VOTES: 985,079

REJECTED VOTES: 20,721

TOTAL VOTES CAST: 1,005,800