Prof. Faduyile Francis Adedayo, former National President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared the winner of the Ondo South Senatorial District bye-election conducted on Saturday.
Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Gbenga Ibileye, announced the result at the senatorial district collation centre in Okitipupa, at the conclusion of the collation process.
Faduyile polled 68,474 votes to secure victory over three other candidates in the contest.
The breakdown of the results showed that Akinwumi Adeolu Harrison of the African People’s Movement (APM) scored 1,411 votes, while Adesanya Olaoluwa of the Action People’s Party (APP) garnered 213 votes.
Nejo Funso Clement of the Boot Party (BP) received 70 votes.
Declaring the result, the Returning Officer stated that Faduyile, having satisfied the requirements of the law and scored the highest number of valid votes cast, was duly returned elected as the Senator representing Ondo South Senatorial District.
Persecondnews recalls that the senatorial seat became vacant following the appointment of Sen. Jimoh Ibrahim as Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations by President Bola Tinubu.