Breaking: Desmond Elliot wins Surulere 1 Lagos state Assembly poll
- The Nollywood star, Desmond Elliot, has emerged winner of the Surulere 1 Assembly poll in Lagos state
- Elliot of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared winner of the poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday, March 10
- He polled 15,357 votes to defeat the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)'s candidate, Benjamin Olasunkanmi, who scored 3,628 votes
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Nollywood star, Desmond Elliot, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as winner of the Surulere 1 state constituency election in Lagos.
The state constituency returning officer, Bolajoko Dixon-Ogbechi, from the University of Lagos, made the declaration on Sunday, March 10, at the Surulere local government collation centre in Lagos, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
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She said that Elliot emerged winner with 15,357 votes, while Benjamin Olasunkanmi, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came second with 3,628 votes.
She declared: ”That Desmond Olusola Elliot of APC having satisfied the requirements of the law and scored the highest number of votes is hereby declared winner and is returned elected.”
According to her, Shitta-Bey Oluwarotimi of Alliance for Democracy (AD) came third with 116 votes, Dawodu Oluwaseyi of Accord Party came fourth with 65 votes while Makanjuola Olaseni of YP came fifth with 59 votes.
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Dixon-Ogbechi stated that the total number of registered voters in the constituency was 134939, accredited voters was 20340, valid votes – 19357 while the total number of rejected votes was 973.
“The total number of votes cast is 20330 while the results of six units at Igbaja/ Stadium with RA number 06 were cancelled. They were cancelled due to the issues of over voting. So, the total number of votes cancelled in the affected areas were 4091,“ she said.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that Nigerians across the states trooped out to elect new governors and state legislators that will pilot the affairs of the state for the next four years.
Only 29 states will be electing governors today, though the state House of Assembly elections will be conducted in all the 36 states of the federation. Seven of the states won’t be voting for governors because their own elections took place “off season”. The states are Osun, Ekiti, Edo, Anambra, Kogi, Ondo, Bayelsa and FCT Abuja.
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