The leadership of the All Progressives Congress in Agege and Orile-Agege area of Lagos State has reaffirmed that High Chief Ganiyu Egunjobi and Barrister Azeez Ninalowo won the party’s primaries for Agege Constituency 01 and Agege Constituency 02, respectively.
Egunjobi is the immediate past Chairman of Agege Local Government, and on Wednesday was declared the winner of the APC primary for Agege constituency 01 in the poll held on Wednesday, and monitored by the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC.
Held across the five wards in the constituency, the ex-council boss scored 9,132 votes, while his former deputy, the recent past Vice-Chairman of the council, Gbenga Michael Abiola, came a distant third.
According to a statement by Egunjobi’s Media Aide, Rotimi Sulyman, on Friday speaking on Thursday at a meeting of stakeholders comprising the three traditional rulers in the area, Baales, and other community leaders including the leadership of traders and artisans’ unions, APC chieftain, Alhaji 𝗔𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗷𝗼 commended aspirants and the party faithful for conducting themselves peacefully during the ongoing primaries of the party.
Adaranijo, who stated that the meeting agenda was to review the outcomes of the party’s primaries in the area so far, however, singled out Abiola for chastisement.
