The chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Lagos State Chapter, Alhaji Tunde Balogun has declared Babajide Sanwo-Olu the winner of the Gubernatorial primary election, held Tuesday, across the 245 wards of the 20 Local Government Areas of the state.
By this declaration, Sanwoolu has emerged as APC flag-bearer for the 2019 governorship elections in Lagos State.
Balogun, who described the exercise as free, fair and credible, maintained that it would be unfair to disenfranchised the 1.7 million registered members of APC following conflicting reports that has trailed the conduct of the exercise.
The panel of the National Working Committee from Abuja deployed to oversee the conduct of the election earlier denied any knowledge of any conduct of election in the state yesterday.
However, Balogun, announcing the results said, the incumbent Governor Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State polled a total votes of 72,901, while Sanwoolu polled total votes of 970, 851 to emerge winner of the contest.
He said: “We thank the members for participating in the election to peacefully select APC standard bearer for next year’s election.
To be clear, an APC primary election was held in Lagos and this was in accordance with the party constitution.
“In pursuant to the constitution, it was stated that the primary would be conducted in direct open system where each voters would queue behind their preferred candidate.”
Recalled that the Chairman of the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Clement Ebri, on Tuesday invalidated the governorship primaries purported to have held across the State, saying that it never authorised such to go ahead when the modalities were not followed as scheduled.
It is obvious that he is falling out with godfathers.
I wonder if the people’s votes still counts under this dispensation in Nigeria.
Are election results concluded in the secret and declared in the open?
Comment: What the people yarn for is good governance.
Congrats to sanwo olu
it is a sorry case
Issokay
APC is try at all means to win this election but they will not win:
Comment:politics
Comment:2019 election is in the hands of God
Comment:that’s ok
Comment: congratulations
God fatherism is very obvious here. Very clear.. Am still wondering how the incumbent governor failed PRIMARIES… Ambode will just accept the defeat
Overthinking is allowed
Sanwoolu has emerged as APC flag-bearer for the 2019 governorship elections in Lagos State
participating in the election to peacefully select APC standard bearer for next year’s election.
Fantastic awesome,may God help help us…the economy system of our country is really affecting issues but this is at least trying to be helpful
That’s good
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