Today, the 16th of July, 2022 is the day Osun decides. The Osun State governorship election taking place at the various wards and local government areas across the state has seen a massive turn out already.
Quite unlike previous times, accreditation and voting has begun early enough, already, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ademola Adeleke, has been accredited and has cast his vote at Ede LGA, as well as the Accord Party governorship candidate, Dr Akin Ogunbiyi, voting at his unit 03, ward 05, Methodist Primary Schl, ileogbo, Ayedire, LG, Osun state.
And Oyetola is said to have arrived his pooling booth in anticipation of casting his vote.
Although 15 candidates were cleared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), it seems as though the battle for the seat of Governor is mainly between Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC); Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP); Lasun Yusuf of the Labour Party (LP) and Akin Ogunbiyi of Accord Party (AP).
According to INEC, there are 1,955,657 registered voters. To cover the 30 local governments, INEC had 332 registration areas; 5,305 Bimodal Voters Accreditation System, BVAC; 3,763 polling units; 332 ward collation centres; 30 LG collation centres and a State Collation Centre where the final declaration of results will be made.
Also, 87 observer groups (79 domestic and eight international) are deploying 7,790 accredited field observers for the election. Then, 94 media organisations (92 national and two international) are deploying about 624 journalists.
