VIDEO: Jubilation Rocks Osun Secretariat As Workers Celebrate Adeleke’s Re-Election

There was widespread jubilation at the Osun State Government Secretariat in Abere, Osogbo, on Monday as civil servants and other public sector workers gathered to celebrate Governor Ademola Adeleke’s victory in the recently concluded governorship election.

Video footage circulating online showed groups of workers singing, dancing and chanting victory songs across various office complexes. Some of the celebrants were seen wearing Accord Party caps and shirts bearing the party’s emblem.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Adeleke the winner after he secured 511,067 votes in the election.

Adeleke, who contested under the platform of the Accord Party, defeated his closest rival, Bola Oyebamiji of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who polled 444,815 votes.

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidate, Najeem Salaam, finished in third place with 17,180 votes.

The Chief Returning Officer for the election, Joshua Ogunwole, announced the final results at the INEC State Collation Centre in Osogbo after the votes from all 30 local government areas had been collated.

APC Chieftain Reacts

Meanwhile, APC chieftain Farouk Aliyu has disclosed that some members of the party believed the Federal Government would intervene to guarantee victory for its candidate, Oyebamiji, during the Osun governorship election.

Speaking on Arise Television’s Morning Show on Monday, Aliyu said such assumptions contributed to the party’s defeat.

According to him, some APC members underestimated Adeleke and his supporters, believing the election would be an easy victory for the ruling party.

He said some party members failed to put in the necessary work because they assumed the APC would win regardless of the circumstances.

**“Yes, there were sentiments, and members of our party, I think, also had an overkill. Some thought that probably the federal government would come and just drive everybody and write the results.

“Our members and supporters took Adeleke for granted, and the members of his party, his movement, in such a way that what we ordinarily ought to do in certain places, we didn’t do, thinking that, look, what is it? I will win the election. We can even do whatever to win the election. Well, that didn’t happen,”** Aliyu said.

Aliyu also criticised a controversial comment attributed to APC chieftain Senator Francis Fadahunsi, describing the reported threat against opposition members as inappropriate.

He acknowledged that Fadahunsi made the comment in Yoruba, a language he said he does not understand well, but maintained that the remark was wrong.

“But yes, I agree with you, Senator Fadahunsi spoke in Yoruba; I don’t speak Yoruba, I don’t understand Yoruba that much, I think what he did was very wrong, for coming out to say ‘kill’…” he added.