[News] Osun Decides2018: INEC Declares Election Inconclusive

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the 2018 Osun state governorship election inconclusive.

The Presiding Officer of the commission, Professor Joseph Fuwape, announced that the PDP candidate scored 254,698 votes while APC candidate scored 254,345 votes.

Fuwape said that the number of votes in places where election was cancelled prevented the commission from declaring Ademola Adeleke of the PDP the winner.

“Unfortunately as the returning officer, it’s not possible to declare anybody as the clear winner of the election on the first ballot,” Fuwape said.

Why did INEC declare it inconclusive?

He explained that the total registered voters in the five polling units where elections were cancelled is 3,498 votes.

Since that figure was higher than the difference between the votes of the leading candidates, the Fuwape said a supplementary election had to be conducted.

Therefore, a supplementary poll would be held to determine the winner of the election, and the date for it would be announced later, according to the INEC chief.