Lagos By-Election Update: APC floors PDP, Others In Lagos East Senatorial Election

APC has finally won the Lagos East Senatorial election.

News Rain Nigeria gathered that the final result of the election was announced at the INEC collation center Sunday morning, as All Progressives Congress (APC) secured an overwhelming victory in Saturday’s senatorial bye-election in Lagos East district.

The final result of the election was announced Sunday morning at the INEC collation center by Ademola Oremosun, the INEC Returning Officer and professor at the University of Lagos.

The APC and its candidate, ex-banker Tokunbo Abiru, polled 89,204 votes to win the election. His closest challenger was the Babatunde Gbadamosi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 11,257 votes.

APC floors PDP, Others In Lagos East Senatorial Election

Recall that the senatorial seat became vacant following the death of the former occupant, Bayo Oshinowo, earlier this year.

Also, note that the bye-election was conducted on Saturday in the five local governments in the district: Epe, Ibeju-Lekki, Kosofe, Somolu, and Ikorodu. The election witnessed low voter turnout and late arrival of election materials in most of the 71 wards, 1,928 polling units, and 188 voting points in the district.

Out of the 1,168,790 registered voters in Lagos East Senatorial District announced by INEC, only 104,921 were accredited with 104,405 votes cast. Of the total votes cast, 102,336 were valid votes while 2,069 were rejected votes.

The APC was declared the winner in each of the five local governments in the area.

Below is the final election result:

Epe

APC: 22,213
PDP: 1,826

Ibeju Lekki

APC: 16,336
PDP: 937

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Shomolu

APC: 17,728
PDP: 2,067

Ikorodu

APC: 19,204
PDP: 3,766

Kosofe

APC: 13, 723
PDP: 2661