Despite being put on trial for alleged N2.5 billion corruption by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, has been reelected.
The returning officer for Ifo state constituency 1, a professor, Richard Shobayo, declaring the result after a supplementary election on Saturday. He said Mr Oluomo of the APC polled 7,546 votes to defeat his arch rival, Yusuf Ogundele of the PDP, who garnered 6,596 votes .
The earlier election of 18 March was declared inconclusive due to over-voting in a polling unit. There was also violence in some places.
