On Saturday, the National Assembly Election was held and Senator Solomon Adeola, who is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance and APC Senatorial candidate for Ogun West Senatorial District, emerged as the winner. He received a total vote of 112,887, while his closest rival, Ganiyu Dada Obanibasiri, the PDP candidate, scored 60,189. The Labour Party candidate came in third with a total vote of 19,244. The announcement of the result was made on Sunday by Professor Oluseye Olusegun Onabanjo of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta at the Oronna Hall, Ilaro, the Ogun West Senatorial Collation Centre at about 7.30pm.
Senator Adeola has made history by winning in Ogun West from his present senatorial district of Lagos West. He had won all his five previous elections consecutively and is now a senator in a state and a senator-elect in another state until the expiration of his current term in June this year. In the party’s primary in Ogun West, he won against the incumbent Senator, Tolu Odebiyi, by a total vote of 294 against zero for the incumbent in a democratic election that had the presence of the incumbent.
The winning votes of 112,887 votes for Senator Adeola marked a departure from the previous Ogun West senatorial area election of 2019 where the winner scored 58,452 votes out of a total of 150,517 of the three top candidates. The total vote cast for the three leading candidates in this election was 192,320.
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Senator Adeola expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the poll in his favor and in favor of all APC candidates, including APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He thanked God and his people for the overwhelming confidence and trust they expressed through their votes. Senator Adeola promised to give effective representation never experienced before in the district, saying that he is aware of the developmental challenges facing his people in the area of infrastructure, energy, education, and healthcare. He stated that even before the election, he had started addressing some of these challenges and promised to continue in similar pattern in the days, weeks, and months ahead.
