Senator Opeyemi Bamidele has been declared the winner of the Ekiti Central Senatorial District election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in Ado-Ekiti.
He will be the first senator in Ekiti Central to be re-elected to the National Assembly since 1999.
Bamidele was declared the winner of the senatorial election on Sunday by the INEC Returning Officer for Ekiti Central Senatorial District, Prof. J. Sola Omotola, at the State Collation Centre, INEC state headquarters, New Iyin Road, Ado-Ekiti.
He pollled 69,351 votes to defeat his rival, Lateef Oladimeji Ajijola of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 26,181 votes.
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