The All Progressives Congress (APC) has
won four House of Representatives seats in
Ogun State out of nine federal
constituencies in the state.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria,
NAN, the APC had earlier been declared
winner of Ado – Odo/Ota Federal
Constituency’s seat in Ogun, Olumide
Osoba (APC) won Abeokuta North/ Odeda/
Obafemi Owode, Lanre Edun (APC) won
Abeokuta South, while Korede Osunsanya,
also of APC, was declared winner of Ijebu-
Ode/Ijebu-North/Odogbolu federal
constituency.
Olumide Osoba (APC), polled a total of
33,538 votes to defeat his opponent,
Mikhail Kazeem of the Allied Peoples
Movement (APM), who scored 14,903
votes.
The result was announced by the returning
officer, Prof. Ismaila Salami, at Unity High
School Collation Centre, Ago-Ika, Abeokuta.
At the Centenary Hall collation centre for
the Abeokuta-South federal constituency,
the Returning Officer, Prof. Bameke
Oyedele, declared APC’s Edun as winner,
having polled a total of 17,003 votes.
He defeated his closest rival, Mr Segun
Sowunmi of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) who scored a total of 8,608 votes.
Similarly, Prof. Michael Ozoje, the
Returning Officer at Ijebu-Ode Local
Government Collation Centre, declared
Osunsanya as winner of Ijebu-Ode/Ijebu
North-East/Odogbolu seat with a total of
25,608 votes.
Mr Taiwo Shote, the PDP candidate, who
came closest to Osunsanya, scored the
total votes of 21,775.
Results of the polls for the five remaining
federal constituency seats were being
awaited as at the filing of this report.
Source:
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election-result-apc-wins-four-nine-reps-
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