Oyetola wins Osun APC primary election

Deborah Oladejo, Osogbo

Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, has emerged winner of Saturday’s All Progressives Congress, APC, primary election held in the state.

Oyetola defeated two other contenders, former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Lasun Yusuff and a former Secretary to the State Government Moshood Adeoti.

Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq who is the leader of the Osun APC Primary Election Committee, while announcing the results in the early hours of Sunday at the APC secretariat, Osogbo, said Oyetola polled 222,169, to defeat Adeoti and Yusuff who scored 12,921 and 460 votes respectively.

According to the committee, accredited voters were 247,207 while the total votes cast were 235,550.