Adigun, an incumbent, was declared winner of the supplementary election after he polled 28,111 votes to defeat his closed contender in All Progressives Congress (APC), Adedapo Lam-Adesina, a son of the late former Governor Lam Adesina.
The INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Benjamin Olley of the University of Ibadan (UI), announced Adigun as the winner at the Mapo Hall Collation Centre in Ibadan.
He said: “I, Prof. Benjamin Olley, hereby announce that Abass Agboworin of the PDP, having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the winner of the supplementary election into Ibadan North-East/South-East Federal Constituency of Oyo State.”
Lam-Adesina of the APC polled 27,338 votes.
The INEC had declared the election inconclusive in February.
Akanni Lawanson, who was the returning officer at the time, declared the election inconclusive.
He said he could not declare the winner of the election because the number of collected Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in some units where elections were not held or cancelled exceeded the margin between the two leading candidates.
Lawanson said that the margin between Adigun and Lam-Adesina was 650 votes while the PVCs in question were in excess of 1,200.
It would be recalled that the young Lam-Adesina also lost to Adigun in 2019 on the platform of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
