February 22, 2025
Candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have been declared winners in all the Chairmanship and councilorship positions in Saturday’s local government council elections in Osun State.
The Chairman, Osun State Independent Electoral Commission, OSIEC, Hashim Abioye who announced the results in a video on the social media, announced that PDP candidated emerged winners in all the 30 Chairmanship and 332 councillorship positions in the respective local government and wards in the state.
The result announcement, was allegedly done at the government house with selected media outfits present in Osogbo since the police had sealed off OSIEC office.
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His words as recorded in the video, “The Local Government election has been successfully concluded. It was conducted in compliance with constitutional provisions, extant laws, regulations and guidelines.
“The election was conducted to fill the existing vacancies in 332 wards in the state and 30 LGAs of the state.
“The election was contested by 18 political parties and the result has been submitted to the commission. From the available result as obtained from the field, the candidates of the PDP in 332 wards emerged as winners, and I as the chief returning officer of the commission hereby return each and everyone of them as duly elected councillors of their wards.
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“For the 30 LGAs of Osun state, the candidates of PDP cleared all the seats to this effect, by the power conferred on me as the chief returning officer of OSSIEC, I hereby declare them as duly elected chairman of their respective LGA.”
Abioye, in announcement the results, again noted that the OSIEC was unable to provide accreditation materials to the media due to sealing off of it headquarters by the police.
“I want to apologise once again to the media community for inability to provide accreditation materials, it was simply because police has sealed our head office where the materials are kept, up till now, police has refused to give us access,” he said.
