presidential election conducted last Saturday, seems to be coasting
home to victory as the various results for the election into the
National Assembly are being announced.
In Nasarawa State for instance, the APC won two senate seats just and
cleared all the senate seats in Kano State.
In Kano North, former House of Representatives member, Alhaji Barau
Jubril, polled 381,393 votes to beat Senate Majority Whip, Senator
Bello Gwarzo, who scored 107, 845 votes. Gwarzo has been in the Senate
since 1999.
Also in Kano South, Kabiru Gaya defeated Alhaji Abdullahi Rogo, the
former Commissioner for Local Government Affairs under former Governor
Ibrahim Shekarau.
In Bauchi State, an APC candidate, Isah Misau, beat the Senate Leader,
Abdul Ningi of the Peoples Democratic Party.
The Bauchi South senatorial candidate for the PDP and Governor of the
state, Isa Yuguda, also lost to Ali Wakili, the APC candidate for the
district.
In Sokoto State, Governor Aliyu Wammakko, the state governor, and his
fellow candidates for the senate floored the PDP candidates.
In Kaduna, Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi of the PDP lost to Malam
Shehu Sani of the APC.
In Ondo, the APC cleared two senatorial seats with Donald Alasoadura
of the APC winning against the incumbent while APC's Senator Ajayi
Boroffice beat Senator Bode Olajumoke of the PDP.
In Kwara State, Dr. Bukola Saraki, a serving senator and former
governor of the state, retained his seat.
In Benue State, Chief Barnabas Gemade, a serving senator who had
dumped the PDP after alleging that the State Governor, Gabriel Suswam,
wanted the ticket, beat the governor to clinch the senatorial ticket.
In Niger State, the incumbent Governor Aliyu Babangida lost to the
APC, while in Ogun state, APC clinched two senatorial seats.
The APC also recorded success in many other states, paving way for the
possibility of forming the majority in the next session of the
National Assembly.
In Lagos State, Senator Gbenga Ashafa, Senator Oluremi Tinubu and
Solomon Olamilekan Adeola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) won
the three Senatorial seats in Lagos to represent the state at the
National Assembly.
In the election announced on Monday evening, Ashafa retained his
senatorial seat as he won the Lagos East Senatorial election in the
state.
Ashafa, according to results announced by the INEC's returning
officer, polled 181,221 votes to defeat the PDP candidate, Olabisi
Owolabi-Salis, who scored 126,350.
Ashafa won in all the five local governments that make up Lagos East
Senatorial District: Epe, Kosofe, Ikorodu, Ibeju Lekki and Shomolu.
In Lagos West Senatorial District, Solomon Olamilekan Adeola aka Yayi
of the APC was declared winner.
In the results declaring Adeola as winner, he scored 429,765 votes to
beat his rival, Segun Adewale of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
who scored 372,421 in the nation's largest senatorial district.
He won in six of the 10 local governments, namely Alimosho, Agege,
Ifako Ijaiye, Mushin, Badagry and Ikeja to beat his rival with 57,344
votes.
He lost in Ojo, Amuwo Odofin, Oshodi /Isolo and Ajeromi /Ifelodun.
In Lagos Central, Senator Oluremi Tinubu of the APC defeated Dr. Ade
Dosumu of the PDP and other contestants in Saturday's National
Assembly polls to retain her seat.
Reacting to his victory at the Lagos East Senatorial election, Senator
Ashafa said it was a hard-fought race and thanked all who supported
him to emerge victorious, saying that "I am overwhelmed by your
gesture and accept your mandate to represent Lagos East Senatorial
District.
"I emerged winner with about 60 percent of the total votes cast at the
election. I accept the challenge to serve you better for another four
year," said Ashafa at a news conference on Monday night.
He said the lessons to be learnt from this election was that the
electorate had become more assertive and should not be taken for
granted any longer as "they want us to move past political bickering."
Ashafa said he is going back to Abuja to represent his people better,
adding that he would work across party lines to make sure that "we get
our country's problems fixed. That is going to require us to monitor
the budget closely in these times of austerity, to further commit to a
more flexible and workakable transportation policy so we can fix our
roads and other infrastructure.
--Vanguard
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