Senator Ademola Adeleke, candidate of the PDP in the Osun governorship election has taken early lead as results are being collated, with APC candidate and incumbent Governor, Gboyega Oyetola in close second position.

What was thought to be a three-horse race has narrowed to two and going by pattern of results pouring in, Political Economist is projecting PDP’s Adeleke to emerge winner.

PDP’s Adeleke won at the Government House polling unit to send a strong message to incumbent and others.

PDP also won atat Polling unit 09, Ward 02, Abogunde, Ede North LGA with 218 votes against APC’s 23 votes. Results in 8 wards out of the 11 wards in Ede North LGA showed PDP winning with 15,099 votes compared to APC’s 5,868 votes.

The result showed similar pattern across the state.

The election which was largely peaceful, however, witnessed spatial incidents of vote-buying in some areas.

Meanwhile, Cleen Foundation Election Security Support Center (ESSC), has lauded the conduct of security personnel at the Saturday’s Osun governorship election.

Mrs Ruth Olofin, Acting Executive Director of the foundation said this on Saturday in Abuja at a news conference on the conduct of security personnel at the poll.

Olofin, represented by Mrs Chigozirim Okoro, the Programme Manager, said that thus far, the conduct of the security personnel deployed on election duty was applaudable.

“Cleen Foundation in line with its mandate to promote public safety and security, deployed 60 citizens observers across the 30 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state.

“It is to observe the conduct of security personnel on election duty at the Osun election.

“The ESSC observed, tracked, documented, escalated and followed up on security related development across the 30 LGAs were its observers were deployed.

“The ESSC observed that 85.1 per cent of security personnel arrived early at the polling units across the 30 LGAs,” she said.

According to him, security personnel in compliance with electoral laws were not armed, however, in some polling units, as PU.007, Ward 29/17/06/015 Adeniji, Ila LGA, armed security agents were present.

“Other security men on election duty maintained a reasonable distance from the polling units and patrolled the units periodically

“68.1 per cent of the polling units had three or more security personnel, 93.6 per cent wore easily identifiable name tags, while 40.4 and 53.2 per cent of the security were approachable.

“And majority of the ESSC observers felt safe and secure at the polling units,” she said.