Oyo State’s ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has cleared all chairmanship seats contested in the 33 local government areas, going by results declared by electoral umpire.
Kicking at the announcement, however, the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) described the exercise as a sham capable of causing the state untold disrepute if allowed to stand.
Chairman of the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OYSIEC), Aare Isiaka Olagunju (SAN), made the announcement of the results of the Saturday, April 27 polls on Saturday night.
According to the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Adebola Hamzat, and other security agencies in the state, the elections were free, fair, credible and violence-free.
However, APC demanded its total cancellation.
According to a statement issued on Saturday in Ibadan by the party’s Publicity Secretary, Olawale Sadare, APC said: “Another opportunity to deepen democracy and return power to the people at the grassroots has had to be missed due to the insensitivity and insincerity on the part of the ruling class in the state.
“With what is happening at the moment in most Polling Units across the state, Gov. Seyi Makinde has again disappointed the whole world. He promised the people that their votes would count today but the opposite is the case. The good people of the state desired to participate in an election to elect a new set of council officials but what they are experiencing is nothing but a sham….
“Even if OYSIEC comes out later to declare all the candidates of the APC, we would not rate this election as credible and acceptable as it falls below the minimum global standard of election conduct.
“The best thing is for the Commission to suspend the exercise and choose another date for proper conduct rather than continue to connive with a few anti-democratic elements in the ruling PDP to perpetrate electoral fraud and desecration of democracy in the land.
“For the avoidance of doubt, OYSIEC started with back and forth position on the need to deploy the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for the conduct of the poll.
“OYSIEC has failed to accommodate more than 80 per cent of the eligible voters in the state today and there is no way the meagre 20 per cent of people who were lucky to cast their votes in a lawful manner can decide the fate of the vast majority.
“Obviously, the Commission allowed a few people to cast their votes at the polling units while the balance of majority rights to vote was secretly handed down to the PDP. Any electoral victory given behind closed doors is illegitimate, tainted and unacceptable. Therefore, we call for the total cancellation of the whole exercise as it was done today.”
Below are results from each local government as being announced by INEC Returning Officers.
1) Irepo
PDP: 17,497
APC: 2,638
2) Orelope
PDP: 24, 569
APC: 5,519
3) Surulere
PDP: 19,493
APC: 1,619
4) Kajola
PDP: 11, 232
APC: 9,373
SDP: 1,28
5) Ogo-Oluwa
PDP: 9011
APC: 854
LP: 12
6) Olorunsogo
PDP: 8,501
APC: 3002
NNPP: 175
7) Ido
PDP: 20059
APC: 3059
LP: 498
cool Ibarapa East
PDP: 13,896
APC: 1,606
SDP: 08
9) Iseyin
PDP:69,896
APC: 8,241
NNPP: 581
10) Saki East
PDP: 9,732
APC: 1,571
ADC:36
11) Saki West
PDP: 19,621
APC: 4,920
ADC: 1,846
12) Ogbomoso South
PDP: 20,102
APC: 3,471
ADC:06
13) Ibadan Northwest
PDP: 21,810
APC: 3,848
ADC: 22
14) Ogbomoso North
PDP: 13,681
APC: 4,691
ADC: 11
15) Akinyele
PDP: 66,325
APC: 3,477
ADC: 147
16) Ibarapa Central
PDP: 14,124
APC: 3,500
ADC: 14
17) Ibadan Southeast
PDP: 23,220
APC: 4,265
ADC: 27
18) Atiba
PDP: 19,259
APC: 5,086
ADC: 06
19) Itesiwaju
PDP: 7,303
APC: 3,795
20) Atisbo
PDP: 25,336
APC: 6,567
ADC: 139
21) Egbeda
PDP: 24,573
APC: 5,637
ADC: 30
22) Iwajowa
PDP: 5,610
APC: 2,969
ADC: 150
23) Afijio
PDP: 18,662
APC: 198
24) Oyo West
PDP: 12,974
APC: 3,712
ADC: 90
25) Orire
PDP: 15,301
APC: 5,579
ADC: 12
26) Lagelu
PDP: 65,786
APC: 4,172
ADC: 150
27) Oluyole
PDP: 17,063
APC: 3,536
ADC: 55
28) Ibarapa North
PDP: 17,307
APC: 6,963
29) Oyo East
PDP: 27,567
APC: 3,051
ADC: 16
30) Ona-Ara
PDP: 13,093
APC: 4,187
ADC: 15
31) Ibadan North
PDP: 73,240
APC: 5,548
ADC: 0
32) Ibadan Southwest
PDP: 25,702
APC: 5,978
33) Ibadan Northeast
PDP: 17,920
APC: 7,958
ADC: 0
