The political establishment in Kwara State has experienced a shock as its arrow head, Dr Bukola Saraki, has been defeated by his opponent in the senatorial election held on Saturday.
He lost his reelection bid to All Progressives Congress’ Ibrahim Oloriegbe.
While Oloriegbe polled a total of 123,808, Saraki, who competed on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party scored 68,994 votes in the four local governments of Kwara Central Senatorial District.
The result of the election was announced by the Senatorial District Returning Officer, Prof. Olatunbosun Owoyomi, from the University of Ilorin.
According to details provided by the News Agency of Nigeria, in Asa local government, Dr Oloriegbe of the APC polled a total of 15,932 votes to defeat Saraki that scored 11,252 votes.
The APC candidate also got 30, 014 votes in Ilorin East local government to 14,654 polled by his PDP rival in the Senatorial race.
In Ilorin West, stronghold of Sen. Saraki, Oloriegbe polled 51,531 votes to defeat the senate president with 30,075 votes.
The situation was the same in Ilorin South where the APC senatorial candidate floored the Senate President with 26,331 votes as against 13, 031 votes garnered by Saraki.
