Lagos speaker, 2 other APC legislators win re – election

Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa has been re-elected to represent Agege State Constituency 1 in the state assembly for another four years.

Equally, his Agege Constituency 2 counterpart, Oluyinka Ogundimu was returned to the House to represent the constituency. Both Obasa and Ogundimu were elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Announcing the result at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) collation centre in Agege, the Returning Officer for Agege Constituency 1, Prof. Saibu Olufemi Muibi of the University of Lagos stated that Obasa scored 17, 665 votes to beat his closest rival from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Auwalu Taure Maude, who scored 4, 743 votes.

The Returning Officer for Agege Constituency 2, an associate Professor also from the University of Lagos, Anthony Kayode Adebayo declared Ogundimu the winner of the election in the constituency having polled a total of 19, 489 votes to beat his closest rival from the PDP who scored 3, 479 votes.

Also, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ibrahim Owolabi, has been declared the winner of Lagos Mainland 1 state Constituency.

The Returning Officer for the election, Dr. Adetoun Adenuga, while announcing the result at St. Agnes Nursery and Basic School, Yaba, declared Owolabi the winner of the election having polled 17, 239 votes.

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Shakiru Agunbiade, who got 3, 568 votes was declared the runner up in the election.