Heavy security, as APC narrowly wins Reps rerun election in Lagos vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
Amid heavy deployment of military and other security personnel, the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate
The supplementary election was conducted in 71 polling units across eight wards in the constituency following the inconclusive February 23 House of Representatives election.The Independent Electoral Commission INEC, in declaring Taiwo of the APC, as winner of the Ajeromi Ifelodun Federal House of Representatives rerun, the Returning Officer for the Constituency, Prof Mathew Ilori, from University of Lagos, made the declaration this at INEC Collation Centre in Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government.
“Don’t take our picture, we don’t want media. We will destroy your phone. We will punch out your eye,” the aggrieved voters shouted at the reporters. “There is no rancour, everything is peaceful because we are one. We are expecting a large turnout,” Balogun said. While announcing the result of the by-election, Olusola Ibikunle, the Returning Officer, declared Bello, as winner, having scored 793 votes while his only opponent, Abdulateef Bolaji Sanni, the candidate of PDP, scored 195 votes.
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