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APC Reps candidate wins Ogun rerun poll
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kolapo Osunsanya, as the winner of a rerun election ordered by the Court of Appeal for the Ijebu-Ode/Odogbolu/Ijebu North-East Federal Constituency.
Recall that Osunsanya was sacked by the National and State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal in Ogun State on September 9, 2019, following a petition filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Taiwo Shote. The tribunal also ordered a rerun within 90 days.
Osunsanya had approached the Court of Appeal in Ibadan.
On November 6, 2019, the Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan upheld the judgement of the tribunal.
Osunsanya in a rerun election held on Saturday in three local government areas polled a total vote of 25,959 votes to defeat Shote who had 21,911 votes.
The Returning Officer-in-charge of the election, Professor Charles Onwuka, of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), declared the APC candidate as the winner, at the Ijebu-Ode Grammar School Collation centre for the federal constituency, having fulfilled the necessary constitutional requirements.
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