The All Progressives Congress' candidate, Nurudeen Akinwunmi, on Saturday won
Ifako-Ijaiye Federal Constituency bye-Election in
Lagos.
The INEC returning officer of the election, Prof.
Clement Aghatise, made the declaration in Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government, exactly 11:59p.m yesterday.
Aghatise announced that
Akinwunmi polled 7,640 votes to defeat his
rival, Mr Babatope Akinyele, candidate
of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled
1771 votes at the poll.
Social Democratic Party
(SDP) candidate got five votes, Action Alliance (AA) candidate had
14 votes, African Democratic Congress (ADC)
had 158 votes while Alliance for Democracy (AD)
had 101 votes.
The total number of
registered voters was 339, 864; Total number of
accredited voters was 10, 051; total number of
valid votes was 9,689; the total number of
invalid votes was 195, while the total votes cast
were 9,884.
”I, Prof. Clement Edokpayi Aghatise, hereby
certify that I was the Returning Officer for the
Ifako/Ijaiye Federal Constituency By-Election
held on Dec.3, 2016.
”That the election was contested, that Mr
Akinwunmi Nurudeen Olaitan of APC, having
satisfied the requirements of the law and scored
the highest number of votes is hereby declared
the winner and he is returned elected, ” the returning officer said.
Elijah Adewale who represented the federal constituency died in Abuja on July 20, this led to the bye-election that was conducted by INEC.
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