Senate President, Bukola Saraki has been knocked off from the Senatorial race has he lost the Kwara Central Senatorial District election to Ibrahim Oloriegbe of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The People’s Democratic Party(PDP) was defeated by his counterpart in each of the four local governments in the district: Ilorin South, Ilorin West, Ilorin East and Asa. The result of the election showed that Ibrahim Oloriegbe bagged a total of 123,808 votes while Saraki had in total 68,994 votes.

According to the results announced by INEC, Oloriegbe beat Saraki with 15,932 votes to 11,252 in Asa; 30,014 votes to 14,654 in Ilorin East; 26,331 votes to 13,013 in Ilorin South; and 51,531 votes to 30,075 in Ilorin West.

Saraki served as Kwara State governor for two terms under the platform of PDP between 2003 and 2011. He was first elected to the Senate before he was elected Senate President after winning re-election in 2015 under the platform APC. He, however, decamped to his former political party, PDP during which he declared his intention to run for President but lost to Atiku Abubakar.