Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has emerged the winner of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) primary election in Edo State.
Chairman of the APC Primary Election Committee and Imo State Governor,
Senator Hope Uzodinma disclosed this on Monday in Benin City, the state
capital.
Ize-Iyamu won the party’s primary after polling 27, 838 votes to defeat
his rivals, Pius Odubu who garnered 3,776 votes and Osaro Obaze who got
2,724 votes respectively.
Following this development, he automatically becomes the APC flagbearer
for the September 19 governorship election in the state.
Reacting to the electoral process, Uzodinma said the election was a
formality in accordance with the guidelines of the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) as the other aspirants had already stepped
down before the polls.
Shortly before the commencement of the election, APC members had
thronged their respective wards to vote in the party’s primary election.
The exercise held across the 192 wards of the 18 local government areas
of the state.