Governor Ademola Adeleke of Accord Party took an early lead on Saturday as the Independent National Electoral Commission began collating results from the governorship election in Osun State.
A review of results uploaded on the INEC Result Viewing Portal indicated that Adeleke was leading other candidates in the provisional results.
On his trail was the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Oyebamiji, while candidate of the African Democratic Party, Najeem Salaam, appeared to be coming a distant third.
As of the time of filing this report, INEC had uploaded 95 per cent of the results on IREV, with Adeleke leading in Osogbo, Oriade, Iwo, Ede South, Ife North, Ife East and Irepodun Local Government Areas of the state.
In Ife North, Adeleke is leading in 19 of the 111 polling units monitored by our correspondents.
