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February 25, 2019
Senate President, Bukola Saraki has lost his bid forreelection into the Senate from Kwara Central on the platform of the People’sDemocratic Party, PDP.
Saraki lost to Yahaya Oloriegbe of the All ProgressivesCongress APC in Saturday’s Senatorial election.
Oloriegbe polled a total of 123,808 votes to defeat theSenate President who scored 68,994 votes in the four local governments of KwaraCentral Senatorial District.
The result of the election was announced by the SenatorialDistrict Returning Officer Olatunbosun Owoyomi from the University of Ilorin.
In Asa local government, Oloriegbe of the APC polled a totalof 15,932 votes to defeat Saraki that scored 11,252 votes.
The APC’s candidates won the House of Representatives seatsin Asa/Ilorin West and Ilorin South/Ilorin East Federal Constituencies
In the Presidential election, APC maintained the lead in 14out of the 15 local governments already announced.��������^j�