Reps Speaker, Gbajabiamila, Re-Elected For Sixth Term ……As Senate Spokesperson Loses Seat To PDP

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila, has been re-elected for the sixth consecutive term.
According to the official results declared by the Returning Officer, Prof. Virgy Onyene at the Surulere Local Government office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, Gbajabiamila polled 19,717 votes to defeat his closest rival, Bosun Jeje of the PDP who scored 5,121 votes.
The APC lawmaker was first elected into the House of Representatives in 2003.
In his 20-year sojourn in the National Assembly, Gbajabiamila has occupied the positions of Minority Whip, Minority Leader, Majority Leader and now Speaker.
Similarly, the Senate spokesperson, Sen. Ajibola Bashiru, on Sunday, lost his bid for re-election into the upper chamber of the National Assembly from Osun Central on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Senate spokesperson lost to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Fadeyi Olubiyi.
The INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Ibrahim Usman, who announced the result in Osogbo, the Osun State capital on Sunday, said Olubiyi polled 134, 229 votes to defeat Bashiru, who scored 117, 609 votes.
For Osogbo Federal Constituency, the INEC returning officer, Dr Isiaq Egbewole, announced the PDP candidate, Adewale Muruf, as the winner.
The returning officer said Muruf polled 71,677 votes to defeat Abosede Ogo-Oluwa of APC, who scored 58,992 votes.