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Former Ogun state governor, Gbenga Daniel, has emerged the winner of Ogun East senatorial election after winning all nine local government areas within the district in a landslide.
Professor CFI Onwuka, the INEC Returning Officer, declared Mr Daniel winner of the Saturday poll on Sunday night.
Mr Daniel, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), scored 115,147 to defeat his closest rival, Ajibola Kalejaiye of the Peoples Democratic Party who garnered 58,708.
Labour Party’s Wale Kuku scored 13,061 votes.
Mr Daniel, a two-term governor of Ogun State, who left office in 2011, had remained a political force in Ogun. He withdrew from the PDP, under which he ruled to join APC in 2021.
Upon picking the party’s ticket in a hard-fought primary, Mr Daniel rolled out a colourful ward-to-ward campaign across the senatorial district, garnering massive goodwill the APC and all its candidates.
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