{
  "id": 1648987,
  "title": "Osun poll: APC won’t rush to congratulate Adeleke – Campaign DG",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/osun-poll-apc-wont-rush-to-congratulate-adeleke-campaign-dg-1648987",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-18T06:16:50.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Punch",
    "slug": "punch",
    "url": "https://punchng.com/osun-poll-apc-wont-rush-to-congratulate-adeleke-campaign-dg/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Governor Ademola Adeleke won the Osun State governorship election with 511,067 votes, defeating the All Progressives Congress candidate, Bola Oyebamiji, who secured 444,815 votes.\n\nThe APC campaign director-general in Osun State, Oluwole Oke, stated that the party would not rush to congratulate Governor Adeleke, citing an ongoing review of the election results, according to Punch.\n\nDeji Adeleke, the father of afrobeats singer Davido and a businessman, alleged that the APC spent around N60 billion on vote-buying during the election, with some areas seeing votes being bought for as high as N50,000. He claimed that his prayers helped Governor Adeleke win the election, saying he prayed that voters would take APC's money but still vote for his brother.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Punch Nigeria",
        "title": "Osun poll: APC won’t rush to congratulate Adeleke – Campaign DG",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/osun-poll-apc-wont-rush-to-congratulate-adeleke-campaign-dg",
        "published": "2026-08-18T05:42:50.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "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."
}