The chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Lagos State Chapter, Alhaji Tunde Balogun has over-ruled the Clement Ebri-led panel and 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.
Sequel to Balogun’s declaration, Sanwoolu has emerged as APC flag-bearer for the 2019 governorship elections in Lagos State.
The APC chairman 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 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. Lagos APC Primary: Ebri NWC panel chairman dismisses ward elections.
He said: “We thank the members for participating in the election to peacefully select APC standard bearer for next year’s election. “They did this with enthusiasm and dedication 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.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the panel, Mr Clement Ebri has been accused of compromising his integrity when he visited the incumbent governor alongside his team when they arrived Lagos on Monday.
