With their popular slogan…‘Imole De!’ Accord’s Political Party candidate, Ademola Adeleke has emerged the winner of Osun State Governorship Election, held on Saturday, 15th August, 2026.

Adeleke returns for a second term, as the declaration ended months of campaigning in the South-West state, with 15 political parties participating in the election.

The Osun State governor won a fresh four-year term to lead Osun state after defeating his closest rival, Bola Oyebamiji of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The Returning Officer for the Osun governorship election, Joshua Ogunwole, who announced the results at the INEC Collation Centre in Osogbo early Sunday, said Governor Adeleke polled 511,067 votes to emerge as the winner of the keenly contested exercise.

Oyebamiji of the APC came second with a total vote count of 444,815. Najeem Salaam of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) was a distant third, having gotten 17,180 votes.

“For that, Adeleke Ademola Jackson of the Accord Party, having satisfied the requirement of the law, is hereby declared the winner and is hereby returned elected,” he said on Sunday morning at the collation centre in Osogbo.

According to Ogunwole, 1,005,800 votes were cast in the election, which was held across the 30 local government areas of Osun State, while 985,079 valid votes were recorded.

The Returning Officer said 1,010,684 voters were accredited for the poll.