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As the rerun election of Polling Unit 004 of Ifo 1, Ogun State Constituency comes up next Saturday, April 15, the camp of the State House of Assembly Speaker, Olakunle Taiwo Oluomo is confident of victory, going by the popularity and acceptability among his people at home. The Unit is popularly called ‘front of Mosque 11.’
Election at the unit was cancelled on March 18 due to alleged over voting. But before the cancellation, the speaker was leading with 968 votes.
The contest is between the Speaker, Oluomo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Ifo Ward 3 and Ogundele Okikiola of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), from Ifo Ward 1.
Chieftain of the All progressives Congress (APC) in the consistency, Alhaji Murtala Adebukola said the spirit of the camp was high because of the importance of the speakership slot zoned to the area coupled with the performance of Oluomo in his first term which is winding to an end. Adebukola said people of Ogun State Central District would prefer Oluomo to return to the seat because he has facilitated executive/legislative harmony that led to rapid development of the state.
There are 1, 848 registered voters out of which 1,596 collected their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) in the unit.
