The Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, has been elected for a sixth term to represent Agege 1 constituency in the state’s Assembly.
INEC’s Returning Officer for Agege constituency election, Dr. Lukman Adeniji, made the declaration, on Sunday, at the Collation Centre, at Orile-Agege.
He said that eight political parties fielded candidates for the election held, on Saturday.
According to him, Obasa secured 17, 214 votes to beat Mr. Raheem Alani of Labour Party who had 3,933,the PDP candidate got 1,609 votes, while Kafayat Biobaku of ADC got 62 votes.
“Mubashiru Obasa of APC having satisfied the requirements of the law, has scored the highest number of votes, is hereby declared the winner and returned elected,” Adeniji declared.
In a related development, Alhaji Jubreel Abdulkareem of APC also won the Agege constituency 2 Assembly seat.
Abdulkareem, a former Chairman of Agege Local Government, secured 15,676 votes to defeat Labour Party and PDP candidates who polled 7,159 and 1,598, respectively.
