IReV Uploads Rise as Osun Counting Advances, Ejigbo Violence and Arrests Draw Scrutiny
Osun’s governorship election moved deeper into the results phase Saturday evening as polling-unit result uploads increased on INEC’s Result Viewing Portal, while violence in Ejigbo and police enforcement activity added fresh security and accountability pressure to the vote.
At the latest verified IDNN milestone, 753 of Osun’s 3,763 polling-unit result forms had been uploaded to IReV by 4:36 p.m.
That figure is a timestamped portal snapshot.
It is not a declaration of the governorship result, proof of a statewide candidate lead or an official local-government total.
IReV Uploads Move Election Into Results Phase
The growing number of uploaded polling-unit forms marks the election’s transition from voting into result transmission and verification.
IDNN will continue to distinguish between:
- polling-unit result forms;
- ward collation;
- local-government collation;
- state collation;
- formal declaration by the appropriate INEC returning authority.
No IReV snapshot, party-agent tally or media aggregate will be presented as proof of the statewide outcome before its status is verified.
Earlier in the day, INEC said 3,556 of 3,763 polling units — 94.5 per cent — were operational by 8:30 a.m., with delayed units operational by 9 a.m.
The focus has now shifted from whether polling opened to whether counted votes move transparently through the collation chain.
Violence Disrupts Voting in Ejigbo
Violence disrupted voting at a polling location in Ejigbo, forcing voters and INEC personnel to flee.
The incident remains location-specific.
It does not establish that violence disrupted the election across Osun.
Claims about who started the confrontation, whether electoral materials were targeted or whether electoral offences occurred must remain attributed until supported by stronger evidence.
The accountability question is whether affected voters were able to complete the process and how INEC and security agencies documented and resolved the disruption.
Police Enforcement Figures Require Careful Separation
Police enforcement activity around the election has also produced several figures that must not be treated as interchangeable.
Police-linked reporting established the arrest of a lawmaker and said 300 people described as “unaccounted individuals” were found at a political stakeholder’s residence and were being profiled.
Separate reports referred to 146 persons and more than 200 Permanent Voter Cards.
Those figures describe different claims, stages of the enforcement account and alleged recoveries.
IDNN is therefore not combining them into a single arrest total.
Being arrested or profiled does not establish that any person committed an electoral offence.
Any alleged recovery of PVCs must also remain an attributed police or media claim until its evidential and legal status is established.
Adeleke Alleges Police Interference; CP Responds
Governor Ademola Adeleke accused political opponents of bringing a police officer from Port Harcourt into Osun to interfere with voting in Ede.
The allegation has not been independently established by IDNN.
Osun Commissioner of Police Ibrahim Gotan responded that the Inspector-General of Police has authority to deploy any serving officer to any part of Nigeria.
That response did not specifically establish whether the officer identified by Adeleke had been deployed to disrupt the election.
The Nigeria Police Force had earlier directed personnel deployed for the poll to act professionally, impartially and according to the rule of law.
The conduct of security personnel — and evidence surrounding allegations of partisan interference — therefore remains an accountability issue as the results process advances.
BVAS Problems Remain Localised
Reports of BVAS recognition failures emerged from some polling units during voting.
But other monitored locations reported that the devices were functioning normally.
The evidence therefore supports a limited frame: BVAS problems occurred in some locations, but there is no established basis for describing the technology as having failed statewide.
Collation Is Now the Central Test
The election has entered its most consequential phase.
The question is no longer simply whether voters cast ballots.
It is whether polling-unit results move transparently through ward, local-government and state collation; whether security incidents are properly documented; and whether allegations involving political actors or security agencies are tested against evidence rather than hardened into fact through repetition.
At the latest verified IDNN check, no official statewide winner had been established.
The Osun live file remains open
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