The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the Osun State July 16 governorship election, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has won 17 of the 30 local government areas (LGAs) of State.
This is as the incumbent Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) won in the remaining 13 LGAs.
This comes as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ended collation of the results of the governorship election from the 30 LGAs of the State.
The collation exercise, which commenced around 1am on Sunday morning at the INEC office in Osogbo, the state capital, ended at about 5.30am with party agents, election monitors and journalists now waiting for the formal announcement of the winner of the election by the Returning Officer, Prof. Oluwatoyin Temitayo Ogundipe, who is the vice chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG).