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Nigeria’s senate president Bukola Saraki has lost his re-election bid to the Red Chamber to the ruling All Progressives Congress’s candidate Ibrahim Oloriegbe.
Saraki currently represents the Kwara Central senatorial district in Ilorin, Kwara state. He lost to his challenger in all the four local councils in the district.
Result announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission Sunday evening showed that in Ilorin West, APC polled 51, 531 while the PDP polled 30,075.
The number of registered voters were 224, 494.
While accredited voters were 91,130.
The commission will officially announce the winner of the Senate seat. But based on the announced results, Mr Saraki has effectively been removed.