The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured Nigerians that the 2022 Osun State governorship election will not be declared inconclusive.
The supervising INEC National Commissioner, Prof Kunle Ajayi, gave the assurance while speaking ahead of the commencement of the final collation exercise.
Ajayi said the election would end on first ballot.
He disclosed that the results of the 30 Local Government Areas had been uploaded to the INEC portal.
WITHIN NIGERIA recalls that in 2018, Senator Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was leading when the election was declared inconclusive.
Governor Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was eventually declared winner of the rerun election.
This publication had earlier reported that protesters stormed the INEC collation centre in Osogbo, the state capital, demanding that the exercise should end on first ballot.