Aregbesola’s Chief of Staff, Oyetola Wins APC Governorship Polls

The Chief of Staff to the Governorof Osun State, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, has won the ticket of the All Progressive Congress (APC) for the September 22 governorship election in the state, Naija News Understand .

Announcing the results at about 10:45 pm on Friday at the party’s secretariat in Osogbo Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege said Oyetola, who is Gov. Aregbesola Chief of Staff since 2010, scored 127,017 votes.

Omo-Agege, who represented Gov. Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara , the Chairman of the Election committee, said that Mr Lasun Yussuff, Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives came second with 21,975 votes.

“ Having won the majority votes, I declared Adegboyega Isiaka Oyetola as the official flag bearer for the Sept. 22 governorship election”, Omo-Agege said.

However, he commended all other aspirants for displaying maturity during the exercise. Omo-Agege who described the election as a family contest, said there was no victor and no vanquished. The direct primary was conducted in 332 wards across the state.The late arrival of election materials and absence of electoral officials delayed the exercise in some of the wards visited.

A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who monitored the exercise in Iwo, Ejigbo, Ikire and Gbongan reports that many party members waited for hours at their wards to be accredited for the exercise.