Osun To Hold Local Government Election One Month Before Oyetola’s Exit

Local government election is to be conducted in Osun State on October 15, 2022, a month to the scheduled end of tenure of the outgoing governor of the state, Mr Gboyega Oyetola.

The Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC) announced the decision at a press conference addressed by the chairman of the Commission, Otunba Segun Oladitan at the OSIEC office in Osogbo, the state capital, on Monday.

According to him, the election would have taken place two years ago, but circumstances including litigations, COVID-19 pandemic and EndSARS protest hindered it.

Noting that a new legal framework to conduct the local government election has recently been passed through by the Osun State House of Assembly, Oladitan said, “The commission is happy to inform you and the general public that the Local Government Elections in Osun State of Nigeria shall be conducted on the 15th day of October, 2022.

“You would kindly recollect that when this Commission conducted elections in January 2018, it was based on parliamentary system. I have the pleasure to inform you that the elections we are conducting this 2022 shall be on presidential system whereby Chairmen of Local Government Councils shall be elected and Ward Councillors shall be elected separately.”

Oladitan said the commission had been making necessary contacts with relevant stakeholders and carrying out in-house preparations for the conduct of local government elections.

“In accordance with the Oath which we Members of the Commission took we shall ensure that the elections are free, fair, transparent and credible. We therefore seek for the support of you the Fourth Estate of the realm is giving balanced, fair and impartial reportage of our activities before, during and after the elections,” he added.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP which is to take over from the outgoing All Progressives Congress, APC having won the governorship election is yet to respond to the decision.

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