The Chairman of the Lagos State APC Governorship Primary, Mr. Clement Ebri, has formally upheld the result earlier released by the Lagos state Chairma
The Chairman of the Lagos State APC Governorship Primary, Mr. Clement Ebri, has formally upheld the result earlier released by the Lagos state Chairman of the Party, Tunde Balogun, thus putting to rest, the controversy surrounding the exercise. Ebri said that the incumbent Governor Akinwumi Ambode scored 72,901 votes to drop out of the race, while Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu scored 970,851 votes to clinch the APC ticket for the 2019 governorship election. He therefore, declared Sawon-Olu winner of the primary.
The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had earlier declared Mr Sanwo-Olu as winner of Tuesday’s governorship primary. This was contrary to the position of the Clement Ebri-led panel, which had earlier declared the election that produced Sanwo-Olu as winner as a nullity. Ebri had said that the primary would be rescheduled as the state chapter has no power to conduct the party governorship primary election on its own. However, the Lagos State Chairman of the party, Alhaji Tunde Balogun, had announced Sanwo-Olu as the winner of the primary.
The announcement was in contrast of the pronouncement of the electoral panel which had declared that election did not hold in Lagos. Both parties had on Monday, at a meeting, disagreed on the pattern of primary to adopt without reaching a consensus.
Sanwo-Olu has gone on to praise the leadership of APC and the defeated governor of Lagos for a free and fair conduct of the primary. He also thanked members of the party and also the general public, including non-Lagos people for their continued support. Sanwo-Olu promised to be fair and relate with everyone, irrespective the divide to move the state forward.
