Dr Yunus Akintunde, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has been declared winner of the Oyo Central Senatorial District Election held on Saturday.
Akintunde defeated the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Candidate, Chief Bisi Ilaka, Accord Candidate, Engineer Dotun Nurudeen Faozey and other candidates.
Announcing the result, Professor Adeniyi Olatubosun said Dr Yunus Akintunde of APC polled 108,776 votes, Chief Bisi llaka of PDP haa 101, 213 votes, Engineer Nurudeen Faozey of Accord has 41,743 votes.
All the APC, PDP and Accord candidates – Yunus Akintunde, Bisi Ilaka and Nurudeen Faozey hail from Oyo town.
It would be recalled that this is the first time election will hold after the passage of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III.