#OsunDecides22: INEC cancel election at polling items as thugs disrupt course of

Adepoju Tejumaye, a lecturer on the College of Lagos and returning officer for Ilesa East Native Authorities on the ongoing Osun State governorship election, has narrated how thugs invaded two polling items within the space, disrupting election processes.

Mr Tejumaye, the top of the division of mass communications on the college, mentioned outcomes of elections held at polling items 007 and 008 within the Filadu axis of the native authorities space had been cancelled as a result of disturbing violence.

“The RA officer sustained a fracture in her leg when thugs got here and destroyed the polling centre in Filadu in Ilesa East,” Mr Tejumaye mentioned whereas giving an account of the occasion.

The returning officer, nonetheless, introduced that elections had been held peacefully in different polling items within the space.

The candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Gboyega Oyetola, polled 13,452 votes towards his main opponent, Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP), who recorded 10,969 votes.

PREMIUM TIMES has additionally gathered that at Atakumosa Native Authorities Space of the state, the voting train held at a polling unit was cancelled attributable to an invasion by thugs.

A corps member working as an ad-hoc workers of the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) was mentioned to be badly injured after the thugs smashed his head on a brick.

The collation of the continuing governorship election outcomes began round 2 a.m on Sunday on the INEC secretariat in Osogbo, the state capital.

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