Former Ogun State Governor, Gbenga Daniel, has won the Ogun
East senatorial ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023
election.
Daniel was said to have scored 450 votes to defeat the
incumbent Senator Lekan Mustapha, who polled 29 votes.
Daniel also defeated a former Deputy Governor to Ibikunle
Amosun during his first term, Segun Adesegun, who garnered six votes and one Mr
Seyi Oduntan, who had 12 votes.
At the commencement of the shadow election held Saturday at
Itoro Hall in Ijebu-Ode, the former Commissioner for Health in Ogun, Babatunde
Ipaye, had announced that Senator Mustapha, had stepped down for Daniel.
This, it was gathered, made other aspirants vacate the venue
of the election, leaving behind only the former governor.
Recall that Daniel had, in the buildup to the 2019
elections, announced that he had retired from partisan politics, saying he had
ceased to be a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), under which he was
elected as governor twice.
He later joined the APC, stressing that his followers
insisted that he could not retire from politics yet.
Meanwhile, the Chief of Staff to Governor Dapo Abiodun,
Shuiab Salisu, has been declared the winner of the APC ticket to contest for
the Ogun Central senatorial seat.
Earlier, our correspondent reported that the Lagos West
Senator, Olamilekan Adeola, won the Ogun West Senatorial ticket of the APC.
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