The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, has lost his proposition to return to the Senate to the candidate of All Progressive Candidate Dr Ibrahim Oloriegbe, including two other senatorial candidates of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, who also lost to the All Progressives Congress.
The election was described by observers as a major disappoint to the Senate President.
The Returning Officer, Prof. Olatunbosun Owoyomi, from the University of Ilorin, who announced the result of the election declared Oloriegbe winner as he scored 123, 808 votes to defeat the Senate President who scored 68, 994 votes in the four local government areas of the Kwara Central Senatorial District.
The result of different local government of showed how Oloriegbe floored the Senate President, in Asa Local Government Area, Oloriegbe polled 15, 932 votes to defeat Saraki who scored 11, 252 votes, also in Ilorin East Local Government Area, APC candidate got 30, 014 votes to 14, 654 polled by his PDP challenger.
Whilen in Ilorin West, which is considered Saraki’s stronghold, Oloriegbe polled 51, 531 votes to defeat the Senate President with 30, 075 votes, as it was also the same in Ilorin South where the APC senatorial candidate defeated the Senate President with 26, 331 votes as against 13, 031 votes polled by Saraki.
The APC’s candidates won the House of Representatives seats in Asa/Ilorin West and Ilorin South/Ilorin East Federal Constituencies.