The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Ademola Adeleke of the Accord Party the winner of the Osun State governorship election held on Saturday, August 15, 2026. Adeleke secured 511,067 votes, defeating his closest challenger, All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Bola Oyebamiji, who polled 444,815 votes, a margin of 66,252 votes. The declaration was made in the early hours of Sunday, August 16, by the INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Joshua Ogunwole, Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, after collation of results from all 30 local government areas.
Final Statewide Results and Key Figures
INEC's final figures show total valid votes of 985,079, with 1,005,800 votes cast and 20,721 rejected votes. A total of 1,010,604 voters were accredited. The main contenders were Adeleke (Accord), Oyebamiji (APC), and Najeem Salaam of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), who finished third with 17,180 votes. Other candidates recorded significantly lower totals: ADP polled 2,946 votes, ZLP 2,482, APGA 1,474, AAC 1,458, YPP 534, APM 234, SDP 155, APP 114, BP 111, NNPP 118, and PRP 83.
LGA-by-LGA Breakdown: Adeleke's Path to Victory
Adeleke won 19 of Osun's 30 local government areas, while Oyebamiji secured 11. The Accord candidate's victories included Ede North, Ede South, Ejigbo, Iwo, Egbedore, Ife North, Ife East, Ife Central, Oriade, Ifelodun, Orolu, Ayedaade, Aiyedire, Odo-Otin, Boluwaduro, Ilesa West, Ifedayo, Osogbo, and Ila. His largest vote haul came in Osogbo, where he scored 36,480 votes against APC's 30,474. In Ede North, Adeleke recorded 35,427 votes, giving him a 25,144-vote advantage over Oyebamiji. In Ede South, he won 26,188 votes to APC's 6,219, a margin of 19,969. Other significant Accord victories included Ife East (27,201 to 18,600), Iwo (27,085 to 19,660), Egbedore (19,278 to 11,194), Oriade (21,343 to 14,863), Ifelodun (21,107 to 18,396), and Ife Central (21,171 to 15,913).
Oyebamiji's Strongholds and Close Contests
The APC candidate won 11 LGAs: Irewole, Isokan, Olorunda, Atakumosa East, Atakumosa West, Ilesa East, Boripe, Irepodun, Obokun, Ife South, and Olaoluwa. Oyebamiji's strongest performance was in Irewole, where he polled 29,972 votes against Adeleke's 10,934, a margin of 19,038 votes. He also recorded sizeable victories in Boripe (19,963 to 12,448), Obokun (16,120 to 12,023), Ilesa East (16,208 to 12,280), and Atakumosa West (10,037 to 7,479). However, these wins were insufficient to offset Adeleke's larger aggregate margins across his 19 councils.
Several LGA races were extremely close. In Boluwaduro, Adeleke won by just 68 votes, polling 7,118 against Oyebamiji's 7,050. In Isokan, Oyebamiji defeated Adeleke by only 298 votes (14,063 to 13,765). In Olaoluwa, the margin was 619 votes, with Oyebamiji securing 10,782 against Adeleke's 10,163.
ADC's Third-Place Finish and Adeleke's Second Term
Najeem Salaam, former Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, finished a distant third with 17,180 votes, winning no LGAs. ADC's strongest performances were in Ejigbo (5,053 votes), Osogbo (1,503), and Ife East (935). The result gives Adeleke a second term as governor, having first won in 2022 under the Peoples Democratic Party before defecting to Accord. The final numbers confirm Adeleke's victory with 511,067 votes, Oyebamiji with 444,815, and Salaam with 17,180, marking the conclusion of one of Osun's most closely watched governorship contests.
