The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila won the Surulere I Federal Constituency election on Saturday.
At around 6.04 p.m. on Sunday, Prof. Virgy Oneyene, the INEC Returning Officer for the constituency’s House of Representatives election, announced the results at INEC’s collation centre in Surulere.
She claims that with 19,717 votes, Gbajabiamila of the APC won, and Mr. Bolaji Jeje of the PDP came in second place with 5,121 votes.
According to the returning officer, Mr. Mathew Idowu of the Social Democratic Party received 838 votes, followed by Mr. Ademola Oshinaya of the New Nigeria Peoples Party with 623 votes, Mrs. Benedicta Uba of Zenith Labour Party with 660 votes, and Lumumba Savage of Party A with 337 votes.
“At the end of voting, Femi Gbajabiamila of APC has satisfied the requirements of the law and scored the highest number of votes and is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected, ” she said.
Gbajabiamila is the current Speaker of the House of Representatives.
