Bisi Kolawole has emerged as the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the June 18 governorship election in Ekiti State, southwest Nigeria.
Gatekeepers News reports that the primary election took place in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, on Wednesday.
Kolawole had resigned his position as Ekiti PDP chairman to contest the governorship election. He was the preferred aspirant of Ayodele Fayose, former governor of the state.
The chairman of the primary election committee and governor of Akwa Ibom, Emmanuel Udom, while announcing the result of the primary election, said Kolawole polled 671 votes to defeat his closest rival, Segun Oni, a former governor of the state, who had 330 votes.
Earlier on Wednesday, the senator representing Ekiti south, Biodun Olujimi pulled out of the party’s primary election.
Olujimi alleged that she was disenfranchised by the party.
In an interview with reporters, she said: “I came to drop my letter that I was pulling out of the process.
“What happened was that 14 local governments — four of them from my senatorial district — were given to a group of the party and the remaining two, where congresses should have held, nothing held.
“So today, the party asked me to use automatic delegates; 12 from my local government and 10 from Gbonyin local government, making 22 out of the 156 that I should have — and I feel disenfranchised.”
