26th February, 2023
By Adejoke Adeleye/Abeokuta
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance and APC Senatorial candidate Senator Solomon Adeola has emerged the winner of Ogun West Senatorial District seat in the presidential and national assembly elections held on Saturday.
Adeola is the senator currently representing Lagos West in the National Assembly.
He crossed to Ogun to contest for the state’s west senatorial district election which he won with 112,887 votes to defeat his closest rival and candidate of PDP, Ganiyu Dada Obanibasiri who got 60,189 votes.
The Labour Party candidate came third with a total vote of 19, 244.
The result was announced by Professor Oluseye Olusegun Onabanjo of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta at the Oronna Townhall, Ilaro, the Ogun West Senatorial Collation Centre at about 7. 30pm on Sunday.
Senator Adeola who had won all his five previous elections consecutively made national history by winning again in Ogun West from his present senatorial district of Lagos West making a senator in a state and a senator-elect in another state until the expiration of his current term in June this year.
Senator Adeola had won his party’s primary in Ogun West against the incumbent senator, Senator Tolu Odebiyi.
The winning votes of 112,887 votes for Senator Adeola marked a departure from the previous senatorial election of 2019, where the winner scored 58, 452 votes out of a total of 150,517 of the three top candidates.
The total vote cast for the three leading candidates in this election was 192, 320.
Expressing satisfaction with the outcome of the poll in his favour and in favour of all APC candidates, including APC presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Senator Adeola thanked God and his people for the overwhelming confidence and trust they expressed in him through their votes.
He added that having gone round the nooks and crannies of Ogun West during his ward to ward campaign tour, he knows where the shoe pinches the people and he is ready to give effective representation never experienced before in the district.
“I want to assure you that having gone round the 59 wards of the district, I am aware of the developmental challenges facing my people in the area of infrastructure, energy, education and healthcare. Even before the election, I have started addressing some of these challenges and I promise to continue in similar pattern in the days, weeks and months ahead,” he stated.