LAGOS: APC Wins supplementary election in Ibeju-Lekki constituency

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Ibeju-Lekki State Constituency I, Fatai Mojeed, has been declared winner of the supplementary election in the area.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the result for the conducted supplementary election in nine polling units of the state constituency on Saturday.

The March 9 election in the constituency was declared inconclusive because of over-voting in the nine polling units, covering two Registration Areas (Ward).

Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Rasheed Ojikutu, announced the result for the election at the Collation Centre located in INEC office in Ibeju-Lekki council at about 6:30 p.m.

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Ojikutu, of the Department of Actuarial Science and Insurance, Faculty of Business Administration, University of Lagos, first read out scores of each political party in March 9 election, before announcing the total votes in the supplementary poll.

According to him, in 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 announced that Mojeed polled a total of votes 9,484 to defeat his closest rival from the Peoples Democratic Party (NAN) 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, haven 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.

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.

Total registered voters were 122, 442, while the total accredited voters for the election were 12,245.

The party agents took turns to sign the results.

Speaking, Prince Wasiu Elemoro, candidate of PDP for Ibeju-Lekki constituency, described the election as being far better than the previous polls.

Elemoro said that the supplementary election was free, fair and peaceful.

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