The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate for Ibeju-Lekki State Constituency I, Mr Fatai Mojeed, winner of the supplementary election in the area.
The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that INEC conducted supplementary election in nine polling units of the state constituency on Saturday.
The commission had declared the March 9 election in the constituency inconclusive, because of over-voting in the nine polling units, covering two Registration Areas (Ward).
Prof. Rasheed Ojikutu the Returning Officer for the election announced the result for the election at the Collation Centre located in INEC office in Ibeju-Lekki council.
Ojikutu, of the Department of Actuarial Science and Insurance, Faculty of Business Administration, University of Lagos, first read out scores of each political party on March 9 election, before announcing the total votes in the supplementary poll.
According to him, on March 9 election, APC polled 8,525 votes and PDP scored 1, 786, SDP got 63, ADP scored 54 votes, Accord got 50 votes, AD polled 59 votes while other political parties scored less than 40 votes each.
He said that Mojeed polled a total of 9,484 votes to defeat his closest rival from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mrs Tare Oliver who got 1,901 votes.
“I, Prof. Rasheed Kola Ojikutu, hereby certify that I am the returning officer for the constituency I of Ibeju-Lekki in the election held on the 23rd Day of March 2019.
“I declare that Mojeed Fatai Adebola 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,” ojikutu said.
He added that Accord Party scored 51 votes, AD polled 60 votes, ADC polled 26 votes, SDP got 64 votes, AAC polled 27 votes, ADP got only 55 votes while others got less than 10 votes each.
Ojikutu said that the total registered voters were 122, 442, while the total accredited voters for the election were 12,245.
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The party agents took turns to sign the results.
NAN reports that out of 12, 711 registered voters in the nine polling units, only 1,118 voters came out to vote in the supplementary election.
Speaking to NAN, Wasiu Elemoro, candidate of PDP for Ibeju-Lekki Federal Constituency described the election as being far better than the previous polls.
Elemoro said that the supplementary election was free, fair and peaceful.
Also speaking, Mr Rasak Alatishe, the APC party agent at the collation centre, commended the peaceful conduct of the voters, expressing satisfaction with the outcome, which Mr Femi Asia, his counterpart from the PDP corroborated.
After being declared winner, Mojeed, who could not hide his joy, thanked the people for the trust reposed in him and promised not to disappoint them.
NAN
