Fuad Kayode Laguda has emerged because the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate within the February 3 bye-election for Surulere Federal Constituency 1.
The chairman of the first election committee, MrYusuf Yakubu, declared Laguda the winner of the bye-election with 20 votes, surpassing three different candidates who polled zero votes.
The opposite contestants embrace former two-term members of the Lagos State Home of Meeting, Hon. Kabir Lawal, Raheem Owokoniran, and Jamila Omobolanle.
Laguda, who’s the anointed candidate of the erstwhile Speaker of the Home of Representatives and the incumbent Chief of Employees to the president, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, emerged victorious in a main held on the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos on Saturday.
The bye-election was performed to fill the vacuum created following the resignation of Hon. Gbajabiamila as a member of the tenth Home of Representatives, as he took up an appointment because the Chief of Employees to President Bola Tinubu.
Laguda described his victory as a triumph for your complete constituency whereas promising to comply with within the footsteps of the previous Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, in his type of illustration.