The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate and incumbent Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has been re-elected as governor of the South-West Nigeria state.
Abiodun was declared winner of the March 18 gubernatorial election with a total of 276,298 votes.
The governor defeated his closest challenger and candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Oladipupo Adebutu, who scored 262, 383 votes.
The candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Olubiyi Otegbeye, who was backed by former Governor Ibikunle Amosun, came third with 94,754 votes.
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Before the announcement, the PDP collation agent, Sunkanmi Oyejide, had urged INEC to declare the election inconclusive.
“If we invoke the principle of lead of margin in the Electoral Act 2022, the rejected votes, according to results submitted to local government by local government officials are far higher than the lead of margin. This just to inform you when you are done with your final collation and what happened is found to be true, you will know that the election shall be inconclusive and a rerun should be ordered where necessary,” he noted.
The Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of Ogun was N50.6 billion in 2020, up by 99 percent to N100.7 billion in 2021, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).