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APC’s Jide Jimoh retains Mainland Rep seat
The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Lagos Mainland Federal Constituency, Mr Jide Jimoh has been declared winner of Lagos Mainland Federal Constituency after the just concluded polls.
According to results made available by the returning officer of the election Prof. Iyiola Oni, Jimoh garnered a total of 22,073 votes to defeat his closest rival from the Peoples Democratic Party, Tajudeen Agoro who got 16,834 votes.
Oni, the Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lagos said; “At the end of the exercise, Jimoh Abdulraheem Olajide 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,”
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Other results showed that Sherifat Ogbola of Accord Party scored 40 votes, Balogun Usman of AD polled 88 votes, Olugbenga Shobowale of ADC polled 212 votes while Olaide Abiodun got only 5 votes.
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