Akinwunmi Nurudeen Olaitan, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has defeated his opponents to emerge winner of the Ifako-Ijaiye Federal Constituency by-election in Lagos State.
The returning officer of the election, Prof. Clement Aghatise, made the declaration about 12 midnight at the Independent National Electoral Commission’s office in Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Area.
Aghatise said that Olaitan polled 7,640 votes to defeat his closest rival, Babatope Akinyele, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, who scored 1,771 votes.
The Social Democratic Party polled five votes, Action Alliance had 14 votes, African Democratic Congress had 158 votes, while Alliance for Democracy had 101 votes.
Aghatise said that the total number of registered voters was 339,864; total number of accredited voters was 10,051; total number of valid votes was 9,689; total number of invalid votes was 195; and total votes cast were 9884.
He said: “I, Prof. Clement Edokpayi Aghatise, hereby certify that I was the Returning Officer for the Ifako/Ijaiye Federal Constituency by-election held on December 3, 2016.
“That the election was contested, that Mr Akinwunmi Nurudeen Olaitan 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.”
The by-election was conducted following the death of Hon. Elijah Adewale on July 20.
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