The governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has produced Asue Ighodalo as winner.
Foremost businessman Ighodalo, was winner of the exercise that held in Benin City, the Edo State capital.
Ighodalo was declared winner by Chairman of the Edo PDP Primary Electoral Committee and Governor of Zamfara State, Dauda Lawal.
According to the declaration, Ighodalo polled 577 votes to defeat nine other aspirants to become the PDP flag bearer for the the September 21 governorship election.
On the other hand, Philip Shuaibu, Edo State Deputy Governor won the parallel primaries with 301 votes.
Announcing the results of the parallel primaries, an electoral officer stated that after counting the votes from the primaries, Shuaibu had a total of 301 votes and therefore, was declared the authentically elected candidate of the PDP primaries.
Other participants cleared for the Edo PDP governorship primary include Blessing Igbinedion, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, Anselm Ojezua, Felix Alkabue, Martin Uhomoibhi, Arthur Esene, Hadizat Umoru, Dr Earl Onaiwu and Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama.
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