Tajudeen Obasa

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday in Ojo, Lagos State declared Mr Tajudeen Obasa winner of the Ojo Federal House of Representative rerun.

The election was pronounced inconclusive by the electoral body after the Feb. 23 election because election did not take place in five polling units of the constituency.

The rerun that took place in the five affected units on Saturday, the APC scored 289 votes in addition to 25, 545 it earlier scored during the Feb.23 poll that amounted to 25,809 votes to emerge runner up in the contest.

While PDP candidate polled 142 at the rerun in addition to 28,891 votes earlier secured that amounted to 28,8039 votes to retain the ticket with a margin of 3,029 votes.

Declaring the outcome of the rerun, Dr Taibat Lawns of the University of Lagos and INEC Returning Officer for rerun said: “having satisfied all electoral requirements, Tajudeen Obada is hereby declared winner of the Ojo Federal House Representative,” she said. (NAN)