Home 2022 PDP GUBER PRIMARY ELECTION MONITORING REPORT BY CHRISTIAN INITIATIVE FOR NATION BUILDING (CINB) ELECTION MONITORING TEAM.

2022 PDP GUBER PRIMARY ELECTION MONITORING REPORT BY CHRISTIAN INITIATIVE FOR NATION BUILDING (CINB) ELECTION MONITORING TEAM.

Date: March, 2022

Team Members:

  1. Mr. Victor BALOGUN
  2. Mr. Daniel IBIKITAN

Polling Centers Monitored:

  1. Osogbo City Stadium
  2. WOCDIF Centre Osogbo (Parallel Primary Election)

On the 8th of March 2022, The People’s Democratic Party Osun State chapter had their gubernatorial primary elections in Osogbo Osun State. The voting type deployed was the Secret Ballot System. Delegates were accredited earlier in the day and voting commenced by 2:56p.m and ended by 3:55p.m after the accreditation Exercise. The candidates running for the gubernatorial ticket for PDP were;

  1. Adeleke Ademola
  2. Adeleke Bamidele
  3. Fatai Akinbade
  4. Babayemi Dotun
  5. Akin Ogunbiyi
  6. Omirin Sanya

Also, another faction of PDP delegates held what was called “parallel elections” at WOCDIF Centre Osogbo. They deployed the Open Ballot System of voting. The election was done for the following candidates;

  1. Fatai Akinbade
  2. Adeleke Bamidele
  3. Babayemi Dotun
  4. Akin Ogunbiyi
  5. Omirin Sanya

CINB team members were on ground at the 2 polling venues to monitor proceedings and get the results from these venues. The report from these venues are given below

  1. Osogbo City Stadium Election Results

After successful accreditation and voting, the Returning Officer, Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State Mr. Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo gave the results of the voting at 6:20p.m in the presence of INEC officials from both the state and headquarters branches. The results for the election are given below:

Number of votes: 1,892

Number of invalid votes: 24

  • Ademola Adeleke: 1887
    • Adeleke Bamidele : 1
    • Fatai Akinbade: 0
    • Babayemi Dotun: 0
    • Akin Ogunbiyi: 0
    • Omirin Sanya: 4
  • WOCDIF CENTRE OSOGBO (Parallel Elections)

The parallel election held at WOCDIF centre at Osogbo also had party delegates from PDP, INEC representatives from the state and haeadquarters and also Mr Adekani Ajanaku as the returning officer. The election held at WOCDIF was carried out without the inclusion of Sen. Ademola Adeleke as one of the candidates. The results of the election are given below;

Number of votes: 1,808

Number of invalid votes: 27

  • Dotun Babayemi: 1781
    • Adeleke Bamidele : 32
    • Fatai Akinbade: 28
    • Akin Ogunbiyi: 23
    • Omirin Sanya: 16

Key Findings:

The elections held at the two separate venues had separate winners that emerged. The winners are Sen. Ademola Adeleke and Dotun Babayemi. This would pose a lot of controversies as we approach the major elections in July, 2022. Although, the atmosphere on the election ground was peaceful and no reported situations of violence.

Recommendations:

  1. More members should volunteer to join the election monitoring team for the major elections coming up for more coverage of polling units.
  2. Encourage people to come out to vote and not to have fear of insecurities.
  3. Encourage voters to get their PVCs.