BREAKING: 35-YEAR-OLD SDP CANDIDATE “SMALL-ALHAJI” DEFEATS PDP’S IN ONDO REPS RACE
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Joseph Omoniyi
The House of Representatives candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Adeyemi Adefisoye, has won the Idanre/Ifedore Federal Constituency seat of the National Assembly election in Ondo State.
Popularly known as ‘Small Alhaji’, Adefisoye was declared the winner of the poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), after polling 16,186 votes to beat his closest rival, Kayode Akinmade of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the keenly contested election.
Akinmade, a former Commissioner under the immediate past government of Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, polled a total number of 14,191 votes to come second in the poll.
The INEC Returning Officer for the federal constituency, Professor V.A. Bello, announced the election result at the collation centre in Owena on Sunday.
According to Bello, having satisfied the INEC rule of having the highest votes at the election, Adefisoye was declared the winner.
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