{
  "id": 1193884,
  "title": "Osun Poll: With 95% Results Uploaded, Adeleke in Unassailable Lead",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/16/osun-poll-with-95-results-uploaded-adeleke-in-unassailable-lead",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-16T04:11:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "This Day",
    "slug": "this-day",
    "url": "https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/08/16/osun-poll-with-95-results-uploaded-adeleke-in-unassailable-lead/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State currently holds an unassailable lead in the state's recent governorship election, with 51.7 per cent of the votes uploaded to the INEC Result Viewing Portal. As of 2:06 AM, the commission had collated the results from 3,612 polling units, representing 95.99 per cent of the total 3,763 PUs. Adeleke, the Accord Party candidate, garnered 509,057 votes, while the All Progressives Congress candidate, Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji, received 425,879 votes. The African Democratic Congress candidate, Najeem Salaam, secured 17,393 votes. Adeleke triumphed in 21 Local Government Areas, while Oyebamiji led in the remaining nine. Notable figures like former Governor Rauf Aregbesola and Senator Iyiola Omisore lost their polling units to APC and the Accord Party, respectively.",
  "summary": "•Defeats Oyebamiji, 10 APC govs, who came to campaign for him • Aregbesola, Oyinlola lose polling units • APC’s candidate hails large turnout of voters Dike Onwuamaeze, Sunday Ehigiator in Lagos",
  "key_points": [
    "Governor Ademola Adeleke leads Osun governorship election with 51.7% of votes.",
    "95% of 3,763 polling units results uploaded, totaling 3,612 PUs.",
    "Adeleke won in 21 LGA, Oyebamiji in 9 LGAs, Salaam in the rest."
  ],
  "editors_take": "Governor Ademola Adeleke's unassailable lead with 51.7 per cent of the votes, ahead of Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji and others, signals a significant shift in the state's political landscape in his favour.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}