Adegboyega Oyetola, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress on Thursday defeated his PDP counterpart, Ademola Adeleke in the two polling units in Ile-Ife, in Osun state, where rerun elections were ordered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to determine the final winner of the election.
In Ife South, Oyetola polled 283 votes, while the PDP candidate got 15 votes. In Ife North(Unit 2), APC got 126 votes, while the PDP candidate, Ademola Adeleke got just two votes.
Also, result of the voting at Ward 5 Unit 7 at Alekuwodo in Osogbo showed that the APC candidate got 299 votes, while the PDP candidate got 165 votes.
Adeleke entered into the rerun election with an advantage of 353 votes, but analysis of the results of the rerun poll indicated he may have lost ground to his APC opponent.