{"id":110655,"date":"2024-02-22T18:26:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T17:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=110655"},"modified":"2024-02-22T18:26:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T17:26:22","slug":"breaking-shaibu-emerges-edo-pdp-candidate-in-parallel-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-shaibu-emerges-edo-pdp-candidate-in-parallel-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Shaibu Emerges Edo PDP Candidate In Parallel Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Shaibu, the Deputy Governor of Edo State, has been elected the gubernatorial candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State in the parallel party primaries which was conducted on Thursday.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Pointblanknews.com reports that Shaibu was declared the party\u2019s candidate for the September 21, 2024 governorship election with 301 votes out of the total numbers of 559 votes cast at the primary by Honourable Moses Bartholomew.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that personnel of the Edo State Security Network, ESSN, however, stormed the venue shortly after the primary.<\/p>\n<p>The personnel who were said to be armed, blocked the entrance to the venue thereby preventing delegates and journalists from leaving the premises.<\/p>\n<p>While declaring Shaibu winner of the primary, Bartholomew Moses, the Returning Officer, said the deputy governor polled a total of 301 votes to emerge the PDP candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier before the parallel primary, some delegates protested that they were barred from participating in the process of accreditation and voting by some officials believed to be acting the script of the state government at the Edo Hotel, venue for the accreditation of delegates.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the protesters\u2019 appeal, Shaibu assured them that their votes will count in the primaries and that they should exhibit no fear as their message will be passed to the appropriate quarters.<\/p>\n<p>He informed them that their massive support is an indication that he will come out victorious after the primaries and subsequently at the main election in September.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Shaibu, the Deputy Governor of Edo State, has been elected the gubernatorial candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State in the parallel party primaries which was&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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