Senator Solomon Adeola, Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Finance and APC Senatorial candidate for Ogun West Senatorial District, was declared the victor of the Ogun West Senatorial District seat in Saturday’s National Assembly election.
Adeola, who presently represents Lagos West Senatorial District, won the Ogun West Senate election with 112,887 votes, while his closest challenger, PDP candidate Ganiyu Dada Obanibasiri, received 60,189 votes. The Labour Party candidate finished third with 19, 244 votes.
The result was announced on Sunday by Professor Oluseye Olusegun Onabanjo of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta at the Oronna Hall, Ilaro, the Ogun West Senatorial Collation Centre at about 7.30pm.
Adeola, who had won all his five previous elections consecutively, made national history by winning again in Ogun West from his present senatorial district of Lagos West, making a senator in a state and a senator-elect in another state until the expiration of his current term in June this year.
Senator Adeola had won his party’s primary in Ogun West against the incumbent Senator, Tolu Odebiyi, by a total vote of 294 against zero for the incumbent in a democratic election that had the presence of the incumbent.
The winning votes of 112,887 votes for Senator Adeola marked a departure from the previous senatorial election of 2019, where the winner scored 58, 452 votes out of a total of 150,517 of the three top candidates.
The total vote cast for the three leading candidates in this election was 192, 320.
Expressing satisfaction with the outcome of the poll in his favour and in favour of all APC candidates, including APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Senator Adeola thanked God and his people for the overwhelming confidence and trust they expressed through their votes, adding that having gone round the nooks and crannies of Ogun West in his ward to ward campaign tour, he knows where the shoe pinches them and is ready to give effective representation never experienced before in the district.
