Nollywood star, Desmond Elliot, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has been re-elected in the Surulere constituency one Lagos State House of Assembly election.
In the result announced on Sunday, Elliot scored fifteen thousand, three hundred and fifty-seven votes, while Benjamin Olasunkanmi, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, came second with three thousand, six hundred and twenty-eight votes.
The State Constituency Returning Officer, Dr Bolajoko Dixon-Ogbechi from the University of Lagos, while making the declaration at the Surulere Local Government Collation Centre in Lagos said Desmond Olusola Elliot of APC having satisfied the requirements of the law and scored the highest number of votes is hereby declared winner and returned elected.
Elliot, forty-five, who was educated at Air Force Primary School and St John’s College, both in Jos, later studied economics at Lagos State University and graduated in 2003 was first elected into the Lagos House of Assembly in 2015.
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