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By Johnson Solomon
The Osun state Election Petitions Tribunal has declared Senator Ademola Adeleke as the winner of the 2018 gubernatorial election in the state.
The three-man panel said during its ruling in Abuja on Friday that the rerun election that held on September 27 was illegal and unknown to law.
The tribunal therefore deducted the votes scored by the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Gboyega Oyetola at the illegal rerun.
The tribunal held that Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won the election at the first ballot on September 22.
The ruling could affect several results from the 2019 governorship elections, where INEC had declared results in several states inconclusive and ordered for supplementary polls.
