The APC Senatorial candidate, Solomon Adeola has emerged the winner of Ogun West Senatorial District seat in the National Assembly election held on Saturday.
Adeola, who is the senator currently representing Lagos West Senatorial District won the Ogun West Senatorial election with a total vote of 112,887 to defeat his closest rival, Chief Ganiyu Dada Obanibasiri of PDP who scored 60,189.
The Labour Party candidate came third with a total vote of 19, 244.
The result was announced by Prof, Oluseye Olusegun Onabanjo of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta at the Oronna Townhall, Ilaro, the Ogun West Senatorial Collation Centre at about 7. 30pm today.
Adeola who had won all his five previous elections consecutively made national history by winning again in Ogun West from his present senatorial district of Lagos West.
The lawmaker had won his party’s primary in Ogun West against the incumbent senator, Senator Tolu Odebiyi by a total vote of 294 against zero for the incumbent in a democratic election that had the presence of the incumbent.
The winning votes of 112,887 votes Adeola marked a departure from the previous senatorial election of 2019, where the winner scored 58, 452 votes out of a total of 150,517 of the three top candidates. The total vote cast for the three leading candidates in this election 192, 320.
Expressing satisfaction with the outcome of the poll in his favour, Adeola thanked God and his people for the overwhelming confidence and trust they expressed through their votes, adding that having gone round the nooks and crannies of Ogun West in his ward to ward campaign tour, saying he knew where the shoe pinches them and that he was ready to give effective representation never experienced before in the district.
