The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced Tokunbo Abiru, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the Lagos East senatorial bye-election.
In a tweet before the final announcement of the result, The Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the bye election, Babatunde Olalere Gbadamosi, raised alarm over the results released so far by INEC, in the Saturday exercise.
His tweet reads: “The election was manipulated and I was clearly rigged out.”
According to INEC, Senator-elect Abiru secured a total of 89, 204 votes to defeat Gbadamosi, who polled a total of 11,257 votes.
Abiru won in all the five local government areas in the senatorial district, Oki Samson of Trek Africa Newspaper reports LIVE from INEC Collation and Declaration Center in Bariga area of Lagos. Below are the results in all the LGAs.
SOMOLU
APC: 17,728
PDP: 2,067
Epe
APC: 22,213
PDP: 1,826
Ibeju Lekki
APC: 16,336
PDP: 937
Ikorodu
APC: 19,204
PDP: 3,766
Kosofe
APC: 13,723
PDP: 2,661