PDP Pummels APC in Ife Central State Constituency Rerun
Election
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the
Ife Central state constituency rerun election, Chief Dipo Eluwole, was today declared winner of the exercise held last Saturday and concluded
yesterday.
Eluwole, who was returned elected with a total of
5,504 votes, beat the Accord Party (AP) candidate, Mr. Segun Fanibe, and Hon.
'Tilewa Sijuade of All Progressives Congress (APC) to second and third
positions respectively.
The AP candidate polled 4,790, APC candidate,
garnered 4,587 votes, while CPC 91, NPPP 11 and NNPP polled 25.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
had last Saturday declared the rerun election inconclusive.
The Returning Officer for the election, Mr. Francis
Oladimeji, said while speaking at the collation centre that "election in
two polling units were cancelled. That is Agbedegbe Street, Moore Ojaja Unit 02
and Moore Ojaja.
According to him, "The number of accredited
voters in the two units is 872. The margin between the first two candidates is
710 by our record. Following the regulation, where the number of cancelled
votes is more than the margin between the two leading candidates, we cannot
announce the winner."
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