PHOTOS: Akinwunmi Ambode wins Lagos state APC Governorship Primaries

Akinwunmi Ambode has been declared the winner of Lagos’s APC Primaries with a wide margin of 3735 votes, after voting and counting finished late into the evening in Lagos state.

Akinwunmi Ambode

Reports began to filter out before the end of voting that Ambode was to win the vote – as he was reported to have been supported by Bola Tinubu, a former Lagos state Governor and heavy-weight politician in the state. The current governor – Babatunde Fashola – was reported to have supported other candidates and did not attend the Primaries.
Ambode is a former Accountant General for Lagos state. On his Twitter Page Akinwunmi Ambode described himself as “an Accountant, Administrator, Public Finance Expert, a retired Civil Servant who served Lagos State meritoriously for 27 years.”
Despite a big push in Lagos state by PDP and the rumoured split in the state party over the candidates for the Primaries – it is widely expected that APC will win the 2015 Lagos state election.
Over 5000 delegates from 20 local governments attended the event and voting for 13 candidates went on late into the night:


The official results are for all the candidates are:
Lanre Ope – 0 Vote
Tokunbo Wahab – 7 Votes
Adekunle Disu – 9 Votes
Abayomi Sutton – 0 Vote
Mrs. Tokunbo Agbesanwa – 0 Vote
Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji – 182 Votes
Dr. Tola Kasali – 69 Votes
Supo Shasore – 121 Votes
Senator Ganiyu Olanrewaju Solomon – 272 Votes
Tayo Ayinde – 17 Votes
Dr. Leke Pitan – 112 Votes
Dr. Femi Hamzat – 1201 Votes
Akinwunmi Ambode – 3735