JUST IN: OsunRerun: UK, EU, US Observers Rate The Governorship Election Rerun

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The UK, EU, and US election observation team have given their initial observation on the conduct of the rerun governorship election in Osun State.

According to the media reports available to us, the observers gave their position while addressing journalists in Osogbo in an interview televised by the TVC television station.

A member of the observer team, who spoke on behalf of the team, said the UK, EU, and US observers had heard reports of irregularities, harassment and interference by inappropriate persons in the elections.

“We are very concerned by these reports and will be checking with stakeholders to check the facts. We call on all stakeholders to remain calm,” he added.

Earlier, the Centre for Democracy and Development, one of the foremost observer groups in Nigeria, faulted the rerun election process.

“In the light of these anti-democratic acts, which have undermined the sanctity of the ballot therefore, we hold strongly the view that the re-run poll of Thursday, September 27, 2018 does not meet up with the minimum standards for free, fair and credible elections,” the CDD said in a statement to PREMIUM TIMES Thursday afternoon.

However in the same vein, the United States Consul General in Lagos gave a clean slate to the rerun election. 

Recall that the rerun election was slated to determine the winner of the governorship election which held in Osun on Saturday 22nd of September, following the cancellation of votes in seven polling units in four local governments.

However in the Saturday election, the PDP candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke had a lead in that election, his margin of victory over the APC candidate, Gboyega Oyetola, was less than the total cancelled votes, the electoral commission, INEC, had said.

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In today's' rerun, the votes were still being collated at the time of this report.

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