Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been declared the winner of presidential election in Osun state.
In the results announced by Folashade Ogunsola, the state’s collation officer for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday, Abubakar polled 354,366 votes to defeat Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who scored 343,945 votes.
Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP) got 23,283 votes, while Rabiu Kwankwaso of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) had 713 votes.
The returning officer said a total of 756,744 votes were cast for the presidential election in the state.
She added that a total of 733,203 votes were considered valid votes while 23,541 votes were rejected