By DAVID IORJA, Abuja –
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Senator Ademola Adeleke, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), following his victory in Osun State gubernatorial election.
INEC returning officer for the Osun gubernatorial election, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, on Sunday morning, declared Adeleke of the PDP, winner of the election.
Adeleke polled 403,371 votes to defeat his closet rival, Gov. Gboyega Oyetola, the candidate of the APC, who scored 375,027 votes.
President Buhari gave his congratulatory message in a statement issued by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, on Sunday in Abuja.
He expressed conviction that with the election over, the people of Osun had expressed their will through the ballot, and the will of the people must always matter and be respected in a democracy.
According to him, the successful conduct of the election is a further testimony to the maturity and commitment of all stakeholders – the electoral body, security agencies, political parties, the media, civil society and the electorate- to further strengthen the integrity of the electoral process in the country.
Buhari reassured the nation that the commitment of his administration ”toward having credible elections remains unshaken.”
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