The supposed candidate of the Labour Party (LP) for Surulere Constituency I, Olumide Oworu was not on the ballot in the just concluded state assembly election that was held on Saturday (yesterday).
Checks by Vanguard on the official declaration of the result sheet for the constituency showed Adebayo Bode and not Olumide Oworu as the candidate of the party.
According to reports, the candidates were enmeshed in legal cases that weren’t resolved till building up to the elections.
After the final collation of results, Elliot came tops with 17,877 votes while the candidate of the Labour Party, Adebayo Bode came second with 7,822 votes.