Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has lost Ikenne Local Government Area to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Ladi Adebutu, in the governorship and state assembly elections held on Saturday.
Both of them are from the late sage, Obafemi Awolowo’s Ikenne LGA.
Adebutu gnarled 12,472 votes to beat the governor who secured 9,133 votes.
At the governor’s polling unit, Abidoun, who is among the 11 governors seeking reelection, polled 147 votes ahead of Adebutu who garnered 142 votes.
But at PU 14, Egunrege in Ikenne township where Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo voted, Adebutu won with 42, APC had 21 votes, while ADC had one vote.
There was violence and ballot boxes hijack especially in Iperu-Remo, the hometown of Abiodun and Adebutu.
In the home town of Governor Dapo Iperu-Remo, there were shootings by political thugs who snatched two ballot boxes at Polling Unit 05, Ward 03 in Ayegbami area of the town.
The hoodlums invaded the polling unit on motorcycles, shot into the air to scare away voters.
They escaped with one of the ballot boxes, before security operatives, particularly the policemen on election duty at the nearby road intersection could respond with a corresponding gun shots to the scene while the Assistant Polling Officer for the unit, Alalade Babatunde was physically assaulted.
The fracas caused chaos, forcing many electorates to run for safety to avoid being hit by strayed bullets.
