Kwara 2023: Oloriegbe losses bid to return to senate, Mustapha, Sodiq, Ashiru win

The senator representing Kwara Central in the National Assembly, Dr Ibrahim Yahaya Oloriegbe has lost the bid to return to the Senate in 2023.

Oloriegbe, who is a chairman senate committee on health, scored the least votes amongst the three All Progressives Congress (APC) aspirants that contested the seat with him in the Kwara central senatorial primary held at banquet hall Ilorin, Kwara State capital.

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A philanthropist and Turaki of Ilorin, Malam Saliu Mustapha scored 136 votes to emerge the winner of the senatorial shadow election.

while a business mogul, Ambassador Yahaya Seriki scored 78 votes and Oloriegbe scored only 15 votes.

In Kwara north senatorial district, the incumbent senator, Suleiman Sodiq Umar scored 202 votes to defeat his only co-aspirant, Hon. Taoheed Daud Toyin, who scored 75 votes.

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Also, the incumbent senator representing Kwara South, Architect Issa Lola Ashiru polled 158 votes to beat his close rival, Hon. Raheem Ajulọopin who scored 154 votes.