Former Ogun governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel has won Ogun East senatorial district election for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Saturday’s national assembly election.
Daniel, popularly called as OGD was declared winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on Sunday.
The former governor polled 115,147 votes to defeat other candidates, according to the results of the election announced by the Returning Officer, Prof. Christopher Onwuka, at the Ogun East Senatorial Collation Centre in Itoro Hall, Ijebu-Ode.
Daniel cleared all the nine local government areas in the senatorial district, including Ijebu North, Odogbolu, Remo North, Sagamu, Ijebu North East, Ijebu-Ode, Ijebu East, Ikenne and Ogun Waterside.
A breakdown of the results showed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came second in the senatorial election, polling 58,708 votes while the Labour Party (LP) followed with 13,061 votes.
Having satisfied the requirements of the law and polled the highest number of votes, Otunba Daniel was declared winner of the election.
