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The All Progressives Congress (APC) secured a landslide victory in the Ogun State Local Government election held on Saturday, winning all 20 chairmanship seats.

According to reports, a total of 613,156 votes were cast in the chairmanship elections across the state’s 20 local government areas. The APC also claimed victory in all 236 councillorship seats.

The results were announced by Babatunde Osibodu, Chairman of the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission (OGSIEC), at the commission’s headquarters in Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta.

However, the Labour Party (LP) chairman in Ogun State, Biodun Jagun, rejected the results, labeling the election a sham. He called for its cancellation and threatened to contest the outcome in court.

“There was no election whatsoever in virtually all the polling units in Ogun State. OGSIEC officials were nowhere to be seen in over ninety percent of the polling units and there were no election materials at the polling units as of 1.30 pm. In the few polling units where election materials were delivered, the materials were incomplete and were delivered around 1 pm, as against 8 am when the election was supposed to start,” he said

“We totally reject whatever results that are declared in this sham of an election. Even the good people of Ogun state have been expressing their opinions on radio and television that there was no election in Ogun State.”

“We call on OGSIEC to cancel the entire election for being in clear violation of the electoral guidelines of Ogun State Electoral Law. If they fail to do this, we will reject any results that are announced and put the necessary machinery in motion to challenge this charade in court.”