By OLA AJAYI

IBADAN—The  People’s Democratic Party, PDP, is claiming to have won the last Saturday’s re-run election in Irepo/Olorunsogo/Oorelope Federal Constituency election where no fewer than 100 suspects armed with dangerous weapons were arrested for alleged violence and thuggery but  the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, however, said the election was inconclusive.

INEC through its Supervising Resident Electoral Commissioner, Alhaji Hussain Pai, explained that the election was inconclusive because the difference between the highest score by the PDP and that of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, was too close when compared to the results cancelled by the commission.

According to the state electoral boss, there was no way the commission could declare a clear cut election result.
To ensure a trouble-free election,  the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Moses Onireti was redeployed to Lagos State on Friday, while his counterpart in the state, Yakubu Alkali, was transferred to Oyo.

Unconfirmed sources said yesterday that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Mr. Jimoh Adelowo, led with 16,344, while ACN scored 14,573votes.

Other results released at  press time,  showed that PDP led with 1,821 votes, while about 3,000 votes were expected from the cancelled units, Accord, 330 votes, ANPP 101, CPC 152, DPP 141, LP 25, MPPP 20 and NTP 57.

According to Pai, 32,688 votes were cast, 895 votes rejected while 31,793 were valid.

Meantime, the Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide and the minority leader of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Rafiu Adekunle, have called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to release results of Saturday’s re-run elections in the state.

Though, the results have not been officially announced, Oloye Akinjide said the result of the election in Irepo/Olorunsogo/Oorelope Federal Constituency had shown that the Peoples Democratic Party had regained its glory in the state.