OMOKIRI COMMENDS SARAKI FOR LOOSING HONOURABLY
On twitter minutes ago, Reno Omokiri has
commended Saraki for loosing his senatorial seat with his head held high.
“Yes, Bukola Saraki
lost his Senate seat, but I respect him. He went down with his head held high.
There is no basis to compare him to Godswill Akpabio,
a man who went to bow down to Buhari for power. What shall it profit a man to
gain the whole world and lose his soul?”
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has lost his
bid for reelection into the Senate from Kwara Central on the platform of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
NAN reports that Saraki lost to Yahaya
Oloriegbe of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Saturday’s February 23
senatorial election.
Legit.ng gathers that Oloriegbe polled a
total of 123, 808 votes to defeat the Senate president who scored 68, 994 votes
in the four local governments of Kwara Central senatorial district.
The result of the election was announced by
the senatorial district returning officer, Prof Olatunbosun Owoyomi, from the
University of Ilorin.
In Asa local government, Oloriegbe of the APC
polled a total of 15, 932 votes to defeat Saraki that scored 11, 252 votes.
The APC candidate also got 30, 014 votes in
Ilorin East local government to 14, 654 polled by his PDP rival in the
senatorial race.
In Ilorin West, stronghold of Senator Saraki,
Oloriegbe polled 51, 531 votes to defeat the senate president with 30, 075
votes.
The situation was the same in Ilorin South,
where the APC senatorial candidate floored the Senate president with 26, 331
votes as against 13, 031 votes garnered by Saraki.
Similarly, APC’s candidates won the the House
of Representatives seats in Asa/Ilorin West and Ilorin South/Ilorin East
federal constituencies
In the presidential election, APC maintained
the lead in 14 out of the 15 local governments already announced.
It was also gathered that PDP only led in Oke
Ero local government with 6,242 votes to 6,079 votes polled by APC
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