The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday night declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Raheem Olawuyi Ajuloopin, as winner of the Ekiti/Irepodun/Isin/Oke-Ero Federal constituency bye-election in Kwara State.
Announcing the results, INEC’s Chief Returning Officer for the poll, Prof. Abimbola Adesoji, said Ajuloopin scored 21,236 votes as against 18,095 votes scored by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Saheed Damilare Alatise.
He added that the Labour Party had 150 votes; just as the PPN had 76 votes while UPN had 42 votes.
He said out of the 40,930 total votes cast, the total valid votes were 39,599 while 1,331 votes were rejected.
The APC candidate won in three out of the four local governments in the constituency and led with 3,142 votes.
Many have congratulated the Kwara people particularly the APC Chairman in the state, Alhaji Bashir Bolarinwa, on what they described as positive beginning towards reclaiming their transferred mandate made possible by recent defections of Senate President Bukola Saraki, Governor Abdulfattah Ahmed and the National Assembly lawmakers from APC to PDP.
The APC State chairman, only last week, insisted in a telephone interview with The DEFENDER that Kwara is APC state and vowed with prayers to God to retrieve back the mandate.
