Osun election: Atedo Peterside questions INEC over ‘missing results’ from 62 polling units

By Bayo Wahab President and founder of Anap Foundation, Atedo Peterside, has questioned the Independent National Electoral Commission over the non-uploading of results from 62 polling units on its Result Viewing (IReV) portal following the Osun State governorship election. Peterside raised the concerns in a post on X on Sunday, a day after INEC declared Governor Ademola Adeleke of the Accord Party winner of the election. He said while Adeleke’s victory had been established, the electoral commission still needed to account for the outstanding results on its platform.

“As at 8.50am on the day after the elections (today), INEC’s IREV had 98.35% of the results uploaded instead of 100%,” Peterside said. “INEC must still explain why they have NOT uploaded the results from 62 Polling Units out of 3,763 Polling Units,” he added. Peterside also argued that the election demonstrated the importance of strong voter participation in preventing electoral malpractice.

“Some of us refuse to get carried away by the #OsunGuber2026 Election result. The only thing it really proves is that a large voter turnout (43.4% in Osun is high by recent Nigerian standards) is the best antidote to rigging,” he said. He urged citizens and stakeholders to continue scrutinising INEC’s conduct, stressing the need for greater accountability in the electoral process.

Peterside said the outstanding results might no longer affect the outcome because Adeleke had already been declared winner, but maintained that the commission should nevertheless explain the delay. He added that stakeholders must “hold INEC’s ‘feet to the fire’” to ensure transparency and accountability in future elections. INEC declared Adeleke winner after he secured 511,067 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Bola Oyebamiji of the All Progressives Congress, who polled 444,815 votes.

The post Osun election: Atedo Peterside questions INEC over ‘missing results’ from 62 polling units appeared first on Vanguard News. Economist and former banker, Atedo Peterside, has said the large voter turnout recorded in the 2026 Osun governorship election demonstrated that mass participation remained one of the strongest safeguards against electoral malpractice. Peterside stated this in a post on his X handle on Sunday while reacting to the outcome of the election, which saw Governor Ademola Adeleke secure a second term in office.

He cautioned against being carried away by the election result, saying the key lesson from the poll was the importance of high voter participation and close monitoring of the electoral process. on Sunday, the day after the election, 98.35 per cent of the results had been uploaded on the portal instead of 100 per cent. According to him, INEC still needed to explain why results from 62 polling units out of the 3,763 polling units in the state had not been uploaded.