Sunday 1 September 2013

Offa election: PDP defeats APC

Mr AbdulWaheed Olanipekun of the the
PDP has emerged Chairman of the Offa Local
Government Council in a re-run election,
conducted in the area on Saturday. The Chairman of the Kwara State Independent
Electoral Commission (KWASICE), Dr Uthman
Ajidagba, made the disclosure on Sunday in
Offa, near Ilorin, while announcing the result of
the elections. He said that contestants on the platform of the
PDP also emerged winners as councillors in all
the 12 wards in the Local Government. Ajidagba said that Olanipekun polled 35,937
votes against the 20,161 votes, polled by the
candidate of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), Mr Saheed Popoola. The KWASIEC boss said that since Olanipekun
had satisfied the requirement of the law by
having majority of lawful votes, he was
therefore, elected and returned as chairman of
the council. He noted that there were reports of attempted
violence from some supporters of political
parties during collation of results at wards but
that the situation was brought under control by
law enforcement agents. Reacting to the outcome of the election, the
Kwara State Publicity Secretary of the PDP,
Alhaji Masud Adebimpe, expressed gratitude to
God for the victory of the party. He thanked the people of Offa for the maturity
they exhibited during the election. Adebimpe appealed to the populace to
cooperate with the new council council
chairman for more development to be achieved
in Offa. However, the Protem Chairman of the APC in
Kwara, Mr Shola Iji, said that the results
declared by the commission were not the
original results of the election. He made the claim while speaking on the
outcome of the elections. “We are not accepting the result because it was
not an honourable result of Saturday’s
elections conducted in Offa. “We know the original result and not the one
that was falsified,” he said.(NAN)

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