The Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has won the Surulere I Federal Constituency election held on Saturday.
Virgy Oneyene, the INEC returning officer for the House of Representatives election in the constituency, declared the results at INEC’s collation centre in Surulere at about 6.04 p.m. on Sunday.
According to her, Gbajabiamila of APC won 19,717 votes, while Jeje of the Peoples Democratic Party came second with 5,121 votes.
Gbajabiamila has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2003 and has held various leadership positions, including Minority Whip, Minority Leader, Opposition Leader, Majority Leader, and Speaker, which he was elected, in 2019.