APC candidates sweep Lagos Island

APC candidates sweep Lagos
Island

The rescheduled election in some parts of
Oshodi area of Lagos State failed to hold
Sunday, while it was held in other designated
areas such as Eti-Osa, Lagos Island and Egbe in
old Alimosho council area.
Officials of the Independent National Electoral
Commission, INEC, it was gathered were unable
to conduct the rescheduled election in some
parts of Oshodi area because of unresolved
differences between the representatives of two
leading parties, APC and PDP over the number
of units the election should be held.
As at 4.00pm on Sunday INEC officials were not
at the points to conduct the rescheduled
election in 28 polling units in Oshodi with
residents waiting endlessly for them to come.
At polling Units 054 and 055 on Salami Street,
residents complained bitterly that INEC officials
refused to show up to hold the election. The
policemen deployed to the units expressed
fatigue as a result of long wait.
At Uinit 056, Akiodu Street, INEC officials did
not show up as at 3.30pm with frustration
written in the faces of residents who were
eager to cast their votes. Similarly, the polling
Unit 060 on Abdulrasak Street officials did not
show up as at 4.00pm.
Some members of the Community Development
Association, CDA, who spoke on anonymity, said
there were 28 polling units which INEC failed to
conduct election on Saturday, saying that
even on Sunday, (yesterday) there was no
presence of the officials in any of the units.
According to an electorate, Kehinde Akande at
polling unit 055, “We have been here since
morning and INEC officials have not come. On
Saturday, we were here from morning till
evening and they did not come. People even left
the church today (yesterday) to vote but they
can’t vote as INEC officials failed to show up.”
Another electorate lamented that he and others
had been waiting for INEC officials since
morning to no avail as no information had
gotten to them on why they failed to show up.
According to Mr. Wole Adigun, “We are not
happy. I have been here since 8.00am and INEC
officials have not turned up. They must come
and hold this election.
Meanwhile, the INEC Electoral officer in Oshodi
Isolo, Mr Adeola Adekunle, who admitted of
some challenges in the area, explained that a
decision would be reached between the political
parties on how the exercise would be conducted
later.
However, re-scheduled elections were held in
some parts of Kosofe, Somolu, Eti-Osa and Egbe
councils where elections did not hold on
Saturday, as INEC officials were on ground for
the conduct.
Lagos Senatorial result
In a result announced yesterday by INEC
officials at the Sura collation centre, Alhaji
Yakub Balogun, All Progressives Congress, APC,
candidate for Lagos Island Constituency II,
polled 16,437 votes to defeat his Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, opponent, Rahman
Saleweh who polled 7,305 votes.
While, Dr. Dolapo Badru also of APC, Lagos
Island Constituency I, polled 15,389 votes to
defeat his PDP opponent Mrs. Adeoti Lukman
who polled 5,732 votes.
However, at press time, Senator Oluremi Tinubu
of the APC was having a comfortable lead in the
contest for Lagos Central District ahead of her
opponent, Ade Dosumu of the PDP. The
rescheduled election result at Eti-Osa for the
senatorial is being awaited at press time.