Nigeria

Rerun election: APC wins in Ogun, defeats PDP candidate

Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 5:18 PM by Aanu Adegun

- Kolapo Osunsanya has won House of Representatives election

- The APC candidate polled a total vote of 25,959

- His closest rival, Taiwo Shote of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), scored 21911 votes

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Kolapo Osunsanya, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), winner of the election for Ijebu-Ode/Odogbolu/Ijebu North-East Federal Constituency in Ogun.

INEC returning officer, Prof. Charles Onwuka, of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), announced the results on Saturday, January 26, at Ijebu-Ode Grammar School, Ijebu-Ode, collation centre of the constituency.

Onwuka said that the APC candidate polled a total vote of 25,959 to defeat his closest rival, Taiwo Shote of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 21911 votes.

Recall that Legit.ng had reported that it was an unfortunate day Sunday, January 26, for the ruling APC in Akwa Ibom and Godswill Akpabio as it lost a bid to return to the Senate in a poll won by rival PDP.

Read also

Update: I have forgiven Oshiomhole - Defeated Okorocha’s in-law Uche Nwosu dumps political party, returns to APC

The election result was declared in favour of PDP's Christopher Ekpenyong against APC's Akpabio, who had earlier occupied the seat but was floored in the 2019 election.

Nigeria's electoral body discloses that Ekpeyong won the seat by beating Godswill Akpabio, a current minister of Niger Delta, by 134, 717 to 83, 820 votes to clinch the seat for the upper chamber of the National Assembly.

The result indicated that Akpabio only floored Ekpeyong in his ward where he polled 762 votes against PDP's 620.

Ekpeyong won in all the other wards of the affected area of the state.

Ekpenyong called his victory over Akpabio an act of God.

An excited Ekpeyong said his victory had ended what he called the dark days of shame in the state.

“I thank God the giver of victory for seeing me through the entire political debacle since September 2018," he said.

PAY ATTENTION: Install our latest app for Android, read best news on Nigeria’s #1 news app