Lagos4Lagos Visioner Jandor Wins PDP Guber Primary Election
The Convener of the Lagos4Lagos Movement Olajide Adediran has won the governorship primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State held on Wednesday.
While announcing the result of the poll, the returning officer Emmanuel Ogidi said Adediran, who is also known as Jandor, polled 679 votes to beat his closest rival David Vaughan who got 20 votes.
According to the returning officer, 775 ad hoc delegates were supposed to participate in the primary election. However, 709 of them were accredited.
“The total number of accredited voters is 709, and Olajide Adediran got 679 votes, David Kolawole Vaughan had 20, and we had 10 voided votes,” he said while declaring the result.
“Having satisfied all the requirements in our guidelines, I want to announce Dr Olajide Adediran as our candidate after scoring the highest votes of 679.
“He is hereby declared the winner and returned elected.”
Earlier, four other contestants Olanrewaju Jim-Kamal, Adedeji Doherty, Ade Dosunmu, and Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, pulled out of the exercise.