The incumbent Ogun State governor and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prince Dapo Abiodun, has been declared winner of the Ogun State governorship election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday, March 18, 2023.
Abiodun won in 12 Local Government Areas of the State, while his closest rival and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Ladi Adebutu, won in the remaning eight Local Government Areas.
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Surprisingly, the Senator Ibikunle Amosun-backed candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Barr. Olubiyi Otegbeye, did not win any of the local government areas of the State as he took distant third position in the race.
Amosun, who is a chieftain of the ruling APC and the immediate-past governor of the State, was believed to have possessed influence that might tilt the 2023 governorship election in favour of the ADC candidate other than Abiodun, a fellow party man.
In the results of the gubernatorial election announced by INEC’s Returning Officer (R.O), Prof. Kayode Adebowale, the APC candidate, Abiodun emerged winner of the governorship election having polled a total votes of 276, 298 votes to defeat his closest rival and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Adebutu Oladipupo Olatunde, who scored a total votes of 262, 383 out of the entire 645,133 total votes cast.
Meanwhile, the PDP in the State has rejected the outcome, saying given the number of cancelled votes higher than the number of margin of lead between the two candidates, the election ought to be declared inconclusive.
