Ondo bye-election: INEC declares APC candidate winner, The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Mr Mayokun Lawson-Alade the winner of the bye-election in Akure North-South Federal Constituency of Ondo State.
According to INEC, Lawson-Alade of the All Progressives Congress won the election after polling 26,379 votes to beat Mr Olumuyiwa Adu of the Peoples Democratic Party, who scored 24,201 votes.
Other contestants, Oluwemimo Fadeke of the African Democratic Party had 465 votes, Joseph Ajayi of All People’s Party polled 125 votes, Olaniyi Olufemi of the National Redemption Movement 76 votes, Opawole Tajudeen of the Social Democratic Party 68 votes.
The INEC’s Returning Officer for the election, Prof Deji Ogunseni of the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA announced the result at the state headquarters of the commission on Sunday morning.