APC Clears Three Senatorial Seats, Six House of Reps, Says Kwara INEC

Date: 2015-03-31

Kwara State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Emmanual Onucheyo, yesterday announced the results for all the national assembly seats with Senator Bukola Saraki of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was re-elected for Kwara Central senatorial seat, with 118,879 votes to beat his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rival, Alhaji Abdulrazaq Abdulrahaman, who polled 66,864 votes during last Saturday's election in the state.

Onucheyo in a statement issued in Ilorin yesterday, a copy of which was made available to THISDAY, also said, "In Kwara South,Hon Rafiu Adebayo Ibrahim of APC polled 73,329 votes to defeat his rival in PDP, L'ola Ashiru, who scored 50,348 votes.

The statement said, "In Kwara North, Senator Sha'aba Lafiagi of APC was reelected with 87,495 votes to beat his rival in PDP, Hon Yahaya Yunusa who scored 39,641.

Onucheyo also said the speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly, Abdulrazaq Atunwa, of the APC defeated Alhaji Sherif Shagaya of the PDP with 37, 484 to 17, 584 votes to emerge the lawmaker-elect for Ilorin West/Asa federal constituency.

He added that the former Minister of State for Women Affairs, Princess Funke Adedoyin, also won the Ekiti/Isin/Irepodun/Oke-Ero federal constituency seat with 26, 758 votes, while her rival in PDP, Mr. Richad Olusola, polled 23,123 votes.

Also, the former Commissioner for Sports in Kwara State and Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Information, Hon. Zakari Mohammed (Baruteen/Kaiama) and the Chairman, House Committee on Water Resources, Hon. Aliyu Ahman Bahago Patigi (Edu/Moro/Patigi) both of the APC, were re-elected with 18, 014 and 40, 210 votes respectively.

Similarly, he said a member of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Tope Layoonu, of the APC who contested for the House of Representatives seat also won the Offa/Oyun/Ifelodun federal constituency seat with 46, 711 votes, while the former commissioner for Works, Dr. Abubakar Amuda-Kannike, of the APC clichéd the Ilorin East/Ilorin South federal constituency seat with 28, 294 votes.

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