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The All Progressives Congress (APC) made a clean sweep of all the 20 chairmanship seats in the Ogun State Local Government election conducted on Saturday.
Naija News understands a total of 613,156 votes were cast in the chairmanship election across the 20 local government areas.
The APC also won the councillorship seats in all the 236 wards across the state.
The election result was declared by the Chairman of the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission (OGSIEC), Babatunde Osibodu, at the Commission’s headquarters in Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta.
However, the chairman of the Labour Party (LP) in Ogun State, Biodun Jagun, has disagreed with the results of the local government polls, describing the entire exercise as a sham.
He called for a cancellation of the entire exercise and threatened to challenge the outcome in court.
“There was no election whatsoever in virtually all the polling units in Ogun State. OGSIEC officials were nowhere to be seen in over ninety percent of the polling units and there were no election materials at the polling units as of 1.30 pm. In the few polling units where election materials were delivered, the materials were incomplete and were delivered around 1 pm, as against 8 am when the election was supposed to start,” he said
“We totally reject whatever results that are declared in this sham of an election. Even the good people of Ogun state have been expressing their opinions on radio and television that there was no election in Ogun State.”
“We call on OGSIEC to cancel the entire election for being in clear violation of the electoral guidelines of Ogun State Electoral Law. If they fail to do this, we will reject any results that are announced and put the necessary machinery in motion to challenge this charade in court.”
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