The Surulere Federal Constituency 1 Bye-Election has been declared won by Fuad Laguda, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Prof. Simeon Adebayo, the Returning Officer for the bye-election, announced the results and stated that the APC candidate received 11, 203 votes overall.
Laguda, a former chairman of the APC in the Surulere Local Government, takes over for Femi Gbajabiamila, who was named President Bola Tinubu’s chief of staff in the middle of 2023.
Gbajabiamila was the Speaker of the House of Representatives between 2019 and 2023 and had won his re-election into the House for the sixth consecutive term to represent the Surulere 1 Federal Constituency during the February 25 National Assembly election before his appointment as Chief of Staff to the President mid-2023.
Gbajabiamila, one of the strong allies of Tinubu, a former Lagos State governor between May 1999 and May 2007, resigned from the House of Representatives last June and the Speaker Tajudeen Abbas subsequently declared his seat vacant necessitating a bye-election in Surulere Constituency 1 to fill the seat.
See full result of Saturday’s bye-election below:
ADC- 40
APC- 11, 203
APGA- 6
APM- 7
APP- 4
LP- 240
NNPP- 8
PDP- 278
SDP- 2
YPP- 9
ZLP- 4
