Adeleke won the higher-turnout LGAs — 44.8% average against the APC's 42.6%.
But turnout explains only 7% of the variation in his LGA share, and the gap isn't statistically significant across 30 councils.
Where he gained since 2022 tracks turnout at −0.03. Basically zero.
OSUN 2026: THE NUMBERS
Adeleke 511,067. Oyebamiji 444,815. A margin of 66,252 — more than double his 28,344 in 2022.
We've taken the INEC declaration apart, LGA by LGA, against 2022.
17 charts. One dataset. A thread 🧵
#OsunDecides2026.
ADC concentration
Najeem Salaam polled 17,180 statewide.
5,053 of them — 29% — came from Ejigbo alone, where he took 12.5%.
Across the other 29 LGAs he averaged about 350 votes.
That's not a third force. That's a favourite son
Ikire delivered. Oyebamiji took 73% of Irewole, turning a 3,982 APC lead in 2022 into 19,038.
Not enough. Adeleke's Ede pair went 28,062 → 45,113.
Both parties banked their candidates' hometowns harder than in 2022. One hometown is two LGAs. The other is one.
Rejected ballots
20,721 Osun voters queued, got accredited, marked a paper — and had it thrown out.
Ilesa West spoiled 3.17%. Ayedire 0.87%. Same ballot, same day, 3.6x apart.
Statewide it improved: 2.43% → 2.06%.
Adeleke won the higher-turnout LGAs — 44.8% average against the APC's 42.6%.
But turnout explains only 7% of the variation in his LGA share, and the gap isn't statistically significant across 30 councils.
Where he gained since 2022 tracks turnout at −0.03. Basically zero.
ADC concentration
Najeem Salaam polled 17,180 statewide.
5,053 of them — 29% — came from Ejigbo alone, where he took 12.5%.
Across the other 29 LGAs he averaged about 350 votes.
That's not a third force. That's a favourite son