The candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Kayode Laguda, has emerged victorious in the Saturday bye-election conducted in Surulere Federal Constituency 1 of Lagos State.
The Independent National Electoral Commission announced that there were a total of 11,801 valid votes, 138 rejected votes and a total vote cast of 11,939.
Out of the total votes cast, Laguda obtained a total of 11,203 votes to defeat his closest opponent, Jerry Afemikhe of the Peoples Democratic Party, who garnered 278 votes.
The candidate of the Labour Party, Adeola Adebanjo, also had a total of 240 votes.
According to the INEC Returning Officer for the election in the constituency, Prof Adebayo Oladipo, Laguda won in all the polling units in the constituency.
The INEC Returning Officer for the election declared the results at the collation centre on Saturday.
He said, “I hereby certify that Fuad Kayode Laguda of APC, having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared winner and is returned elected.”
The breakdown of the results is as follows:
Ward 04 Akinhanmi/Cole
Total registered votes: 27917
Accredited Votes: 2190
Total Valid votes: 2170
Rejected votes: 20
Total votes cast: 2190
APC: 2099
PDP: 29
LP: 27
Ward 05 Yaba/Ojuelegba
Total registered votes: 19558
Accredited Votes: 1710
Total Valid votes: 1689
Rejected votes: 21
Total votes cast: 1710
APC: 1615
PDP: 38
LP: 23
Ward 06 Igbaja/ Stadium
Total registered votes: 23060
Accredited Votes: 2234
Total Valid Votes: 2209
Rejected votes: 25
Total votes cast: 2234
APC: 2102
PDP: 46
LP: 48
Ward 07 Shitta/Ogunlana Drive
Total registered vote 32414
Accredited Votes 3157
Total Valid Votes 3119
Rejected votes 34
Total votes cast 3153
APC: 2966
PDP: 84
LP: 50
Ward 08 Adeniran/Ogunsanya
Total registered vote 21586
Accredited Votes 1519
Total Valid Votes 1502
Rejected votes 19
Total votes cast: 1519
APC 1373
PDP 57
LP 61
09 Iponri Housing Estate/Eric Moore
Total registered vote 15842
Accredited Votes 1133
Total Valid Votes 1112
Rejected votes 21
Total votes cast 1133
APC 1048
PDP 24
LP 31
