BREAKING: Okpebholo Wins APC Governorship Primary Election in Edo

• The APC has declared Senator Monday Okpebholo (Edo Central) as its candidate for the forthcoming governorship election in Edo state
• Governor Bassey Otu, the chairman of the electoral committee, declared Okpebholo after polling 12,433 votes to defeat Dennis Idahosa, who scored 6,541 votes
• Okpebholo was one of the parallel candidates who emerged in the earlier primary conducted by Governor Hope Uzodinma before it was nullified

Benin, Edo - Senator Monday Okpebholo (Edo Central) has won the Edo All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship direct primary election.

Cross River Governor Bassey Otu, the chairman of the Edo APC shadow poll, declared him winner after collating results from the 18 local government areas.

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The collation and declaration were done Lushville Hotel and Suites, Gapiona Avenue, Government Reservation Area (GRA), Benin, The Nation reported.

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Okpebholo polled 12,433 votes to defeat the representative of the Ovia constituency in the House of Representatives, Dennis Idahosa, who scored 6,541 votes.

Recall that the APC produced three candidates in an earlier primary conducted by Governor Hope Uzodinma of the Imo state-led committee on Saturday, February 17.

Three candidates who emerged from APC primary

Uzodinma's committee had announced Dennis Idahosa, a House of Representatives member, as the election winner.

However, Okpebholo was also declared winner by a returning officer for the election, which was held at the residence of the former governorship candidate of the party, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, in Benin.

Later on the same day, Ojo Babatunde, the spokesperson of the local government returning officers, announced Anamero Sunday Dekeri, the lawmaker representing the Etsako Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, as the winner of the primary.

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The development led to a series of protests, and the APC national working committee nullified the election and inaugurated another committee chaired by Governor Otu.

Edo guber: Obaseki, Shaibu battle

Legit.ng earlier reported the face-off between the camps of Governor Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Philip Shaibu, ahead of the PDP governorship primary election in Edo.

The PDP and the APC are set to renew their rivalry in the state as they battle other political parties to produce Obaseki's successor.

Source: Legit.ng