Dapo Abiodun loses his Ikenne LGA to PDP

Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun did not win his local government, Ikenne, in Saturday’s governorship election.

He lost the LGA to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Ladi Adebutu.

The duo hail from Ikenne LG, the home of the late sage, Obafemi Awolowo.
Adebutu polled 12,472 votes to defeat the governor who scored 9,133 votes.

At the governor’s polling unit, Abidoun, who is among the 11 governors seeking reelection, polled 147 votes ahead of Adebutu who garnered 142 votes.
But at PU 14, Egunrege in Ikenne township where Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo voted, Adebutu carried the day.

The PDP scored 42, APC had 21 votes, while the ADC had one vote.

Saturday’s election in the council was reportedly chracterised by violence and hijack of ballot boxes, especially in Iperu-Remo, the hometown of Abiodun and Adebutu.

At Iperu-Remo, there were shootings when hoodlums suspected to be political thugs snatched away two ballot boxes at Polling Unit 05, Ward 03 in Ayegbami area of the town.

The hoodlums invaded the polling unit on motorcycles and started shooting into the air.

They had escaped with one of the ballot boxes before the policemen on election duty at the nearby road intersection came to the scene.

An Assistant Polling Officer for the unit, Alalade Babatunde, was reportedly beaten up.