Sanwo-Olu emerges winner of Lagos APC primary

APC declares Sawoolu winner of Lagos guber primary.

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.

“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.

Chairman, APC National Working Committee (NWC) Panel for the Gubernatorial Primary Election in Lagos, Mr. Clement Ebri (2nd right), displaying result sheets showing that election is yet to be conducted during a media briefing at Ikeja on Tuesday, October 2, 2018. With him are other members of the Panel Hon. Chris Dirisu (right); Chief Clever Egbeji (middle); Mr. Nze Chidi Duru (2nd left) and Senator Clever Ikisikpo (left).

Briefing newsmen in Ikeja on the position of the NWC on the exercise, Ebri said that the APC State Executives failed to turn in the list for officials appointed to supervise the election, adding that the list only got to the panel at about 3pm, saying it would have been totally impossible to go ahead with the process without the list.

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