The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Ekiti Assembly election in Ilejemeje State constituency, Mrs. Bose Dada has been declared winner of the supplementary election conducted on Saturday by the Independent National Electoral Commission. With this victory the PDP now has 25 out of the 26 seats in the State House of Assembly.
The INEC Returning Officer for the election, Mrs Chiyelu Agwu, stated that the PDP candidate, Bose Dada polled a total of 3,449 to trounce the candidate of the All Progressives Congress and incumbent lawmaker in the constituency, Hon Segun Erinle who polled 2,715 to come second.
The Labour Party candidate scored 48votes while Unity Party of Nigeria and ACPN polled 7 and 2 respectively. The INEC Public Relations Officer in the State, Alhaji Taiwo Gbadegesin told newsmen in Ado Ekiti that Dada would be presented the Certificate of Return by the commission next week.
In the same vein, the hope that Nigeria will be having the first elected female governor may have been dashed as the governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Taraba state Arch. Dickson Darius Ishaku has been declared the governor-elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC in the supplementary election in the state.
Darius Ishaku of PDP scored a total votes of 369,318 to defeat Sen. Aisha Arhasan of All Progressive Congress.
The governorship election in Taraba state was declared inconclusive by the INEC returning officer two weeks ago while a supplementary election was ordered in 10 out of the 16 Local Government areas of the state. (Vanguard).