Incumbent senator, Tokunko Abiru on Saturday secured the All Progressive Congress (APC) ticket unopposed to contest for the Lagos East Senatorial seat at the 2023 elections.
Abiru, in the election that held at CMD, Magodo, Lagos, polled 344 votes from 355 delegates accredited for the election.
Delegates who voted cut across the five local governments that made up the Senatorial District: Epe, Ikorodu, Shomolu, Kosofe and Ibeju Lekki.
According to the Returning Officer, Oki Fouad, the election process was in line with the 2022 Electoral Acts.
Senator Abiru, while reacting to his victory, expressed gratitude for the support he received from party’s leaders and members while assuring them of commitment to the mandate.
“I am extremely honored and delighted to be standing before you today to accept the nomination of our great party as the unopposed candidate for the general elections as the candidate for the party to represent Lagos East Senatorial district at the National Assembly.
‘’I want to let you know that I will continue to be passionate about ensuring ‘greater good for greater and larger number’. This mantra will continue to guide my philosophy and strategy in giving a lease of life to our people as much as is within my power. The tactics to drive home this strategy is encapsulated in the resonating and reassuring ‘DOING GOOD’ drive mantra.
“I am eternally grateful for this nomination and wholeheartedly accept it as it perhaps also in many ways a recognition of the efforts and work we have put into representing you in the last 16 months.
“Having received this affirmation from the party and our people, I would like to assure you that I will remain guided by the priorities and commitment to this cause which I have constantly asserted in the course of the exercise of this sacred mandate.”
