LAGOS: APC Clinches 11 Seats In House Of Assembly Polls

No less than 11 candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have been declared winners of the Lagos State House of Assembly polls by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The electoral body declared APC candidate, Mr Ajani Owolabi winner Mainland 1, after he polled 17, 239 to defeat his closest rival from the PDP, Mr Shakiru Agunbiade who scored 3, 568 votes.

The Lagos Mainland House of Assembly Constituency II was also clinched by the APC candidate Mr Moshun Oshun as winner with 8,896 votes to defeat the PDP candidate, Kehinde Oyenuga who got 3, 259 votes.

In the same vein, INEC declared, Mr Abiodun Tobun and Mr Oluwadahunsi Ogunkelu, candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as winner of Epe I and II state constituency election in Lagos State respectively.

At the INEC Collation Centre in Ibereko, the Returning Officer for Badagry Constituency 1, Mrs Bosede Abiodun, announced David Setonji, the incumbent APC legislator, winner of the Badagry Constituency 2, after he polled 14,533 votes to beat PDP’s Alani Ajose who scored 5,209 votes.

Elsewhere, Prof. Adebayo Otitoloju, the Returning Officer, has declared Mr Rotimi Olowo of the All Progressives Congress (APC), winner of Somolu 1, Constituency in the Lagos State House of Assembly.

Also, at the Somolu II Constituency, Mr Abiru Rotimi of APC emerged the winner with 23,444 votes beating Mr Babatunde Aleshinloye-Williams of the PDP who had 7,221 votes, while Nollywood star, Desmond Elliot, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was also declared winner of the Surulere 1 state Constituency election.