The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has fixed the re-run of the Osun State governorship election for Thursday.
The re-run follows the declaration of the election which was held on Saturday inconclusive.
While the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ademola Adeleke, polled 254,699, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gboyega Oyetola, polled 254,345 votes.
The returning officer, Joseph Afuwape, who made the announcement said the re-run would hold in Orogun local government area, Ife North and Ife South.
According to him, the re-run became necessary since the total number of cancelled votes exceeded the difference between the two leading parties.
While the difference between the votes of Adeleke and Oyetola is 353, the number of cancelled votes is 3,498.
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Said Afuwape: “There was problem of ballot box snatching at unit 001 in Orolu local government and 393 votes were cancelled.
“At unit 004 of the same LGA, there was also snatching of ballot box, 387 were cancelled. Area 9, unit 003, there were 167 registered voters. So, for Orolu LGA where there was cancellation, we had 947 registered voters.
“At Ife South LGA, there was also cancellation of election due to the problem of card reader malfunctioning, at that unit 010 there were 502 registered voters.
“At Oyere 2, Ife North, we also had cancelled election; 51 people were accredited but there were 200 votes that were cast, with that, there was cancellation due to irregularities, over voting, number of registered voters at that Unit 02 was 535.
“Osogbo unit 017, there was a case of abscondment by the presiding officer; to this effect, election there was cancelled. Number of registered voters 884.”
