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In the election, Ogun State voted for Bola Tinubu (APC); Tinubu won 58.9% of the vote to defeat Atiku Abubakar (PDP) at 21.4% and Peter Obi (LP) at 14.8%. Although the result was unsurprising as Ogun is in Tinubu's southwestern base and projections had favored him, the totals led to increased faith in Abiodun's chances due to Tinubu's wide ...
Despite the defections, the APC held the gubernatorial office by a narrow 3% margin and the party won a majority in the House of Assembly. Federally, the APC swept all three Senate seats and won most House of Representatives seats. For the presidency, Ogun was won by APC nominee Muhammadu Buhari with about 50% but swung slightly towards the PDP.
As of 12 November 2024, there are 21 states with APC governors, 12 states with PDP governors, 1 state each with APGA, Labour and NNPP governors. The current gubernatorial term ends and new term begins in May for most states, two to three months after their election.
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Ogun State in Nigeria. Salisu was elected to the National Senate for the Ogun West constituency in 2023, pulling a total of 96,759 votes to defeat his closest rival, Olumide Aderinokun of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), who pulled 52,440 votes. [4]
The PDP primary election was held on Monday, December 8, 2014. Even after the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party claimed the election was unauthorized, it was still carried out to produce Adegboyega Isiaka who polled 705 votes as the party's state governorship flag bearer, defeating closest contender, Kayode Amusan, with 150 votes.
2015 Ogun State House of Assembly election ← 2011 April 11, 2015 2019 → All 26 seats in the Ogun State House of Assembly 14 seats needed for a majority Majority party Leader Suraj Adekunbi Party APC Leader's seat Yewa North I Last election 26 Seats after 26 Seat change Speaker before election Suraj Adekunbi Action Congress of Nigeria Elected Speaker Suraj Adekunbi APC The 2015 Ogun State ...
APC candidate Kolapo Osunsanya won the election, defeating PDP Kabir Shote and 18 other candidates. Osunsanya received 45.70% of the votes, while Shote received 38.86%. [ 13 ] In September 2019, a National and State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal voided the election and called a by-election which Osunsanya won.