Home » Headlines, INEC Politics, Osun, State News » 1.4m to vote in Osun guber poll-INEC

1.4m to vote in Osun guber poll-INEC

A total of 1,407,222 voters, comprising 661,394 males (47 per cent) and 745,828 females (53 per cent), were registered by INEC to vote in Saturday’s governorship election In Osun.

An Information kit on the election issued by the commission indicated that there were 332 wards, 3,010 polling units and 3,379 voting points across the 30 local government areas of the state.

Twenty registered political parties fielded candidates to contest the election.

The leading candidates, whose parties are expected to make a good showing in the poll, are Alhaji Rauf Aregbesola of the APC and Sen. Iyiola  Omisore of the PDP.

Alhaji Fatai Akinbade of Labour Party is also expected to do well in the election.

Aregbesola hails from Osun East Senatorial district; Omisore is also from Osun East Senatorial district while Akinbade is from Osun West.

A total of 29 domestic and foreign observer organisations were registered by INEC to monitor the conduct of the election. (NAN)wp_posts

Related Posts

Website Pin Facebook Twitter Myspace Friendfeed Technorati del.icio.us Digg Google StumbleUpon Premium Responsive

Short URL: https://newnigerianpolitics.com/?p=38192

Posted by on Aug 8 2014. Filed under Headlines, INEC Politics, Osun, State News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Leave a Reply

Headlines

Browse National Politics

Featuring Top 5/1453 of National Politics

Subscribe

Read more

Browse Today’s Politics

Featuring Top 5/57 of Today's Politics

Browse NNP Columnists

Featuring Top 10/1573 of NNP Columnists

Browse Africa & World Politics

Featuring Top 5/2446 of Africa & World Politics

Subscribe

Read more

ADVERTISEMENT

Categories

FEATURED VIDEOS

Advertisements

ARCHIVES

October 2025
S M T W T F S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  

© 2025 New Nigerian Politics. All Rights Reserved. Log in - Designed by Gabfire Themes