Salihu Mustapha Declared Winner Of Kwara Central Senate Election As Lola Ashiru Retains Parliament Seat
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Mallam Saliu Mustapha as winner of the Kwara Central Senate election that was held on Saturday.
Professor Abdullahi Abubakar, who was the Returning Officer for the election, announced that Saliu, who was the APC candidate, got 109,823 votes while the PDP candidate, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi had 69,202 votes.
Labour Party (LP) candidate, Alhaji Faruq Akanbi and Dr Ridwan Apaokagi of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) also got 9,280 and 13,193 votes respectively.
Senator Lola Ashiru , who had represented Kwara South in the senate since 2019, would be retaining his parliament seat this year.
Professor Ajibola Akanbi, who was the returning officer for the 2023 Kwara South senate election, announced Ashiru as winner of the election in Omu-Aran , Irepodun local government on Sunday.
Akanbi said Ashiru got 55,966 votes, Rafiu Ibrahim of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had 34,950 votes while Professor Wale Suleiman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) got 24,215 votes.
Senator Sadiq Umar of Kwara North would also be retaining his parliament seat.
Sadiq, who was the APC candidate, had 78, 015 votes, Alhaji Adamu Bawa of the. PDP got 41, 443 votes, NNPP candidate, Baba Kolo Jiyah had 3,140 votes while Moses Rebecca of the LP got 1,947 votes.
Rep Tunji Olawuyi, who represents Ekiti/ Isin/ Irepodun / Oke-Ero Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, will also be retaining his parliament seat this year.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned Dr Nurudeen Bello, the Returning Officer for the Ekiti/ Isin/ Irepodun / Oke-Ero reps election announced on Sunday that there were 59,075 accredited voters while adding that Olawuyi, who was the APC candidate, has eventually emerged as winner.
Olawuyi had 22, 140 votes, the PDP candidate, Engineer Dare Bankole got 19,092 votes while the SDP candidate, Ganiyu Zubair had 9,331 votes- Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you
