While Ademola Adeleke, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Osun west senatorial by-election, secured a landslide victory at his polling unit, Mudashiru Hussain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) managed to poll four votes ahead of his opponent.
The result of unit 2, ward 9 in Ede north local government, where Adeleke cast his ballot, showed he had a total of 155 votes ahead of his opponent who secured just six votes, leaving a gap of 149 votes.
But at unit 1, ward 3, Ejigbo local government where Hussain voted, APC had 152, while PDP trailed with 148, making a difference of four.
As of the time this report was filed, the PDP candidate was leading in Egbedore and Iwo – two of the 10 local government areas in the senatorial district.
Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) are still collating the results of the election.
More to follow...
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