Senator Monday Okpebholo has been proclaimed the winner of the Edo All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary.
He won with 12, 433 votes, defeating his closest challenger, Hon. Dennis Idahosa, who received 6, 541.
Chairman of the APC supplementary primary election, Bassey Out who is also the governor of Cross River declared Okpebholo the winner of the election on Friday, in Benin.
Otu said the candidate polled 12,433 votes to defeat 11 other aspirants in the contest.
Earlier, on February 17, Hope Uzodinma, who was the former chairman of the primary election committee, announced Dennis Idahosa, a member of the house of representatives, as the winner of the primary election.
However, Ojo Babatunde, spokesperson of the returning officers, said Sunday Dekeri, a lawmaker representing Etsako federal constituency in the house of representatives, polled 25,384 votes to defeat Idahosa.
But Okpebholo claimed he won the election with over 6,000 votes. Consequently, the APC national working committee (NWC) declared the election inconclusive.
The committee ordered that a supplementary primary be conducted on Thursday, and replaced Uzodinma with Otu as chairman.
