APC Primaries: Tambuwal wins Sokoto, Ambode wins Lagos
The
first term governors on the platform of the APC all got their second
term ticket, but Rochas Okorocha is still playing politics of
indecision; he wants to be President or governor.
Eight APC governors would be completing their first terms in 2015. They are:
Governors
Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Umar Tanko Al-Makura
(Nasarawa), Kashim Shettima (Borno), Ibrahim Geidam (Yobe), Abdulaziz
Yari (Zamfara), Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo) and Rochas Okorocha (Imo).
Sokoto
Speaker
Aminu Tambuwal has been declared winner of the primary election held at
the state township stadium after a landslide victory against his
co-contestants..
Speaker Waziri Tambuwal got 3,466 of the 3503
valid votes cast. His opponents Senator Umaru Dahiru Tambuwal got 23,
Yusha’u Kebbe got 13, while Professor Lawal Bashar, Barrister Aliyu
Sayinna and Senator Jibril Gada had no vote.
Lagos
Akinwunmi
Ambode has emerged winner of the APC gubernatorial primary in Lagos
State. He is the top man among the aspirants and the only man who
visited all the local governments in Lagos.
Tinubu is backing Akin
Ambode, former accountant general in the state, Fashola preferred Supo
Shasore, a former Attorney General and commissioner for Justice in the
state.
With this result, Tinubu is still the strong man.
Imo
In
the case of Imo State, the APC governorship primaries has been
suspended. Although, no specific date has been fixed for the postponed
primaries, the Imo State APC chairman, Hillary Eke, disclosed that a new
date for the primaries might be fixed after a general meeting of the
party held yesterday.
The deputy chairman of the party, Hon.
Ugochukwu Nzekwe, told LEADERSHIP that the party was still working on
the list of aspirants.
Zamfara
In Zamfara, Governor Abdulaziz Yari was returned as the sole candidate at the end of the APC primary election yesterday.
A
total of 2,336 delegates from the 14 local government areas of the
state, including 38 from the party executive, voted in favour of
Governor Yari.
Declaring the governor as party’s flag bearer, the
supervisor of the election Chief John Nebo, announced that out of total
of 2,336 votes, Yari garnered 2,298 and was declared winner.
Ogun
In
Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun emerged the APC gubernatorial
candidate. His deputy, Segun Adesegun, declared his intention to get the
gubernatorial ticket of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
At
the APC gubernatorial primary election held at MKO Abiola International
Stadium, Abeokuta, the state governor, who was the sole aspirant, polled
a total of 3,554 out of 3,681 total votes while 16 votes were void.
Oyo
In
Oyo State, the incumbent governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi defeated the
son of the former governor of the state, Dr. Wasiu Adesina, to win the
APC ticket for the 2015 governorship election.
At the congress
midwifed by the Hon. Lumumpa Adeh-led five-man electoral committee,
Ajimobi polled 4,662 votes to defeat his Adesina, who polled 22 votes.
Ninety votes were declared invalid.
The result was declared at 7.40 pm.
Rivers
At
the Alfred Diete Spiff Civic Centre, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, the
gubernatorial delegates of APC numbering 3,774 formally elected Hon.
Dakuku Adol Peterside as their gubernatorial candidate for the 2015
polls.
The election was supervised by the six-man National
Electoral Committee under the chairmanship of Prince Austin Eweka from
Edo State.
From a total 4,574 delegates, 4,321 were accredited.
There were 3914 valid votes. A total number of 3774 voted for Peterside.
Total invalid votes (140).
Nasarawa
In Nasarawa State,
Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura has emerged winner of the gubernatorial
primary election of the APC in the state in a landslide victory.
Results
as declared by the chairman of the electoral committee, Chief Ike
Chunwo, show that Governor Al-Makura polled 1,630 votes to beat two
other contestants, Dr. James Angbazo and Engr. Reuben Audu who polled 73
and 17 votes respectively.
Kwara
In Kwara State, 3,007
delegates of the APC unanimously elected the incumbent governor of the
state, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed as the party’s candidate for the 2015
governorship election in the state.
Ahmed, who was the sole
aspirant of the party, emerged unopposed with 3,007 votes cast from
delegates across the 16 local government areas of the state.
Borno
In
Borno State, the APC governorship primaries was shifted to Monday.
However, Governor Kashim Shettima is expected to emerge as the sole and
consensus candidate.
Yobe
In Yobe, Governor Ibrahim Gaidam
emerged winner after Yobe APC delegates endorsed him as the party’s 2015
governorship candidate, according to the chairman of Electoral
Committee, Babagana Tijjani.
Delta
The APC governorship primary which ended at about 6:45 pm in the Delta State capital, Asaba, produced Olorogun O’tega Emerhor.
He was overwhelmingly elected as the candidate of the party for February 2015 governorship election
Enugu
Chief
Okey Ezea, lawyer and shipping magnate, was elected as candidate of the
APCin Enugu State, following the last minute withdrawal of three
aspirants to the race on the party’s platform.
One of the
aspirants Dr. Ifeanyi Asogwa had earlier pulled out of the governorship
race to contest the Nsukka/Igbo-Eze South Federal Constituency seat in
the House of Representatives.
The two other aspirants announced
their withdrawal from the race shortly before commencement of voting
leading to the emergence of Ezea through affirmative voting.
Jigawa
The APC in Jigawa State suspended its guber primary election to produce a consensus candidate.
Despite
instructions given by the party’s national secretariat for the conduct
of the governorship primary elections nationwide, the Jigawa State
chapter of the party appeared to have a different plan.
Taraba
Three
APC governorship aspirants in Taraba boycotted the party’s governorship
primaries, alleging that the process lacked credibility.
In a
joint press conference yesterday in Jalingo, the three aspirants alleged
that the state executives of the party refused to carry them along in
the process leading to the exercise.
The aspirants include Dr Suleiman Julde, Alhaji Tumba Ibrahim and Barr. Yusufu Akirikwen.
Senator Aisha Jumai Alhassan stands a better chance of emerging winner.
Adamawa
It
appears that the contest is likely to be a two horse race between
Senator Muhammadu Umaru Jibrilla and Alhaji Mijinyawa Yayaji who is
believed to be backed by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
Benue
The APC in Benue State postponed the conduct of the governorship primaries in the state.
Kano
Three
aspirants have withdrawn for the Kano deputy governor, Dr. Abdullahi
Kumar Ganduje. The deputy governor is expected to emerge victorious
after the exercise
Niger
Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello has won
the Niger State APC governorship primaries. He polled 3,829 votes to
defeat Senator Musa Ibrahim who had 61 votes out of the total 3,932
votes cast in the election.
Akwa Ibom
Former Akwa Ibom State Secretary to Government, Umana Okon Umana has emerged winner of the APC governorship primaries.
Umana
emerged winner by scoring 2,444 out of 2453 valid votes cast, while
Senator James Udoedehe had six votes. Umana who defected from the PDP to
APC is said to have brought into the APC, his supporters and a robust
political structure that cuts across every part of the state.
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