Candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, Ifeoluwa Ehindero, has taken the lead in Saturday’s bye-election conducted in Akoko NorthEast/NorthWest Federal Constituency seat in the House of Representatives.
In the result declared from the polling units and ward collation centre, Ehindero has scored 16, 439 votes in Akoko North East while his main rival in the Peoples Democratic Party, Olalekan Bada, had garnered 7,934 votes.
Eight political parties participated in the election.
Security was tight in the over 300 polling units where the election was conducted.
There was large turn-out of voters in some areas like Ikare, Okea-Agbe, Oyin and Arigidi.
Credit: The Nation
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