Why Gov. Rauf Aregbesola Defeated Sen. Iyiola Omisore In OsunTwenty-four hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared incumbent Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner of Saturday's Osun governorship State polls, the reason for Aregbesola convincing victory has emerged. According to the results announced by INEC's returning officer, Professor Bamitale Omole, Governor Aregbesola won in 23 local government areas of Osun, while Senator Iyiola Omisore of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) carried the day in the remaining seven local government areas. Vanguard reports that the main reasons Aregbesola won the election include: Aregbesola’s modest performance in the last four years; mismanagement of crisis in the PDP and failure to pacify aggrieved leaders like former governors Isiaka Adeleke and Olagunsoye Oyinlola, who had to defect to the APC. * Governor Aregbesola, 2nd left, celebrating his victory in Osun guber polls Other reasons given were the failure of the PDP to benefit from the religious crisis occasioned by Aregbesola’s re-classification of schools; Aregbesola’s deft grassroots support; Omisore’s Bola Ige’s baggage; the governor’s work in Osogbo; and APC’s loss in Ekiti, which served as a wake-up call leading the leaders to apply useful lessons learnt from the Ekiti episode where PDP’s Ayo Fayose beat APC’s Governor Kayode Fayemi. It would be recalled that President Goodluck Jonathan was among the first to congratulate Aregbesola on his victory, declaring that the outcome gave a lie to “the false, unfair and uncharitable allegations that measures put in place by the Federal Government for the Ekiti and Osun State elections were partisan and designed to achieve a favourable outcome” for his party. Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State (2nd left) and his deputy, Mrs Titi Laoye-Tomori celebrating their re-election at Freedom Park, Osogbo, yesterday. Photo: Dare Fasube. Following the congratulations from the president, the PDP national secretariat also congratulated Aregbesola while the PDP candidate in the election, Senator Iyiola Omisore, in conceding victory to Aregbesola, vowed that he would not be deterred from moving on in his life. Meanwhile, Osun state branch of the PDP, however, declined to accept the outcome of the election. * Sen. Omisore The state chairman of the party, Alhaji Ganiyu Olaoluwa, vowed that the party would challenge the outcome of the election at the tribunal based on what he claimed to have been manipulation of the results by the APC. It would be recalled that Aregbesola was credited with 394,684 votes beating Senator Omisore who had 292,750 votes to second place. Source: Legit.ng Twenty-four hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared incumbent Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner of Saturday's Osun governorship State polls, the reason for Aregbesola convincing victory has emerged. * Governor Aregbesola, 2nd left, celebrating his victory in Osun guber polls * Sen. Omisore