The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Faud Laguda, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Surulere Federal Constituency 1, the victor of the bye-election.
Prof Simeon Adebayo, the Returning Officer for the bye-election, announced the results, revealing that the APC candidate received 11,203 votes.
Laguda, a former APC chairman in Surulere Local Government, succeeds Femi Gbajabiamila, who was appointed Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu.
Gbajabiamila served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2019 to 2023, and he was re-elected to the House for the sixth consecutive term to represent the Surulere 1 Federal Constituency in the February 25 National Assembly election before being appointed Chief of Staff to the President in mid-2023.
Gbajabiamila, a strong ally of Tinubu, a former Lagos State governor from May 1999 to May 2007, resigned from the House of Representatives last June, and Speaker Tajudeen Abbas declared his seat vacant, necessitating a bye-election in Surulere Constituency 1.
See Full Result Of Saturday’s Bye-Election:
ADC- 40
APC- 11, 203
APGA- 6
APM- 7
APP- 4
LP- 240
NNPP- 8
PDP- 278
SDP- 2
YPP- 9
ZLP- 4
More details to follow….