Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Ademola Adeleke, has cast his vote at exactly 8.50 a.m at Ward 2 polling Unit 9 in Ede North Local Government area of Osun.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the BVAS initially rejected the thumb print of Adeleke.
He later went through the facial recognition before he was able to vote.
The Osun governorship election is taking place in all the 30 local government areas of the state with 3,763 polling units and 332 registration areas.
Shortly after voting, Adeleke commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for making the accreditation processes and voting smooth and easy.
He said that the election was so far peaceful, expressing confidence of winning after the whole exercise and becoming the next Governor of Osun.
Ede North has a total registered voters of 71, 750 for the governorship election, with 151 polling units and 11 registration areas.
While Ede South has 54, 880 registration voters, with 89 polling units and 10 registration areas.
