The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Fuad Laguda, as winner of the Surulere Federal Constituency 1 Bye-Election.<\/p>\n
Declaring the results, the Returning Officer for the bye-election, Prof Simeon Adebayo, announced that the APC candidate scored a total of 11, 203 votes.<\/p>\n
Laguda, a former APC chairman in Surulere Local Government replaces Femi Gbajabiamila who was appointed Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu mid-2023.<\/p>\n
Gbajabiamila was the Speaker of the House of Representatives between 2019 and 2023 and had won his re-election into the House for the sixth consecutive term to represent the Surulere 1 Federal Constituency during the February 25 National Assembly election before his appointment as Chief of Staff to the President mid-2023.<\/p>\n
Gbajabiamila, one of the strong allies of Tinubu, a former Lagos State governor between May 1999 and May 2007, resigned from the House of Representatives last June and the Speaker Tajudeen Abbas subsequently declared his seat vacant necessitating a bye-election in Surulere Constituency 1 to fill the seat.<\/p>\n
See Full Result Of Saturday\u2019s Bye-Election:<\/p>\n
ADC- 40
\nAPC- 11, 203
\nAPGA- 6
\nAPM- 7
\nAPP- 4
\nLP- 240
\nNNPP- 8
\nPDP- 278
\nSDP- 2
\nYPP- 9
\nZLP- 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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