Nurudeen
Akinwunmi, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Saturday
defeated his opponents to emerge winner of the Ifako-Ijaiye Federal
Constituency bye-
election in Lagos.
The returning
officer of the election, Clement Aghatise, made the declaration at the INEC
office in Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government, minutes before midnight.
Declaring the
winner, Mr. Aghatise said that Mr. Akinwunmi polled 7640 votes to defeat his
closest rival, Babatope Akinyele, candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
who polled 1771 votes at the poll.
According to
him, Social Democratic Party, SDP, polled five votes, Action Alliance, AA, had
14 votes, African Democratic Congress, ADC, had 158 votes while Alliance for
Democracy, AD, had 101 votes.
Mr. Aghatise
said that the total number of registered voters was 339, 864; total number of
accredited voters was 10, 051; total number of valid votes was 9689; the total
number of invalid votes was 195, while the total votes cast were 9884.
“Mr. Akinwunmi
Nurudeen Olaitan 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, ” he said.
Some of the
party representatives who spoke to NAN expressed mixed reactions to the
results.
Chidi
Williams, an ADC party agent, expressed dissatisfaction with the process.
”There were a
lot of malpractices; it was not really free and fair. We had records that some
people who had lost their PVCs were allowed to vote in some polling units.
”We want INEC
to detach itself from political parties and not allow itself to do what is
unethical. INEC should work more on neutrality, ” he said.
A PDP
representative at the collation centre, Sunday Kudehindu, also said he was not
satisfied with the process, stressing that the ruling party had continued to
induce voters with money.
Mr. Kudehindu
said that INEC had not totally become an unbiased umpire.
The APC
representative at the centre , however, refused to talk to press, saying that
he had received an instruction not to grant interview.
The
by-election was occasioned by the death of Elijah Adewale, who represented the
constituency at the Federal House of Representatives.
Mr. Adewale
died in Abuja on July 20.
(NAN)
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