INEC DECLARES APC’S LAGUDA WINNER OF SURULERE BYE-ELECTION

 

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Fuad Laguda, as winner of the Surulere Federal Constituency 1 Bye-Election.

Declaring the results, the Returning Officer, Professor Ladipo Adebayo of the University of Lagos announced that the APC candidate scored eleven thousand two hundred and three votes, to defeat his closest rival and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Jerry Afemighie, who polled two hundred and seventy-eight votes.

The Labour Party candidate, Adeola Adebanjo scored two hundred and forty votes, 240.

Laguda, a former chairman of the All Progressives Congress in the Surulere Local Government replaces Femi Gbajabiamila who was appointed Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu.

Gbajabiamila was the Speaker of the House of Representatives between 2019 and 2023 and had won his re-election into the House for the sixth consecutive term, to represent the Surulere 1 Federal Constituency during the February 25 National Assembly election before his appointment as Chief of Staff to the President mid-2023.

Gbajabiamila, one of the strong allies of Tinubu, a former Lagos State governor between May 1999 and May 2007, resigned from the House of Representatives last June and the Speaker Tajudeen Abbas subsequently declared his seat vacant, necessitating a bye-election in Surulere Constituency 1 to fill the seat.