The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday evening declared Olayemi Toviho as the PDP candidate for the Badagry Federal Constituency.

Declaring the result of the primary election, the party electoral officer, Johnson Avoseh, said Mr Toviho scored 31 out of 32 votes cast to defeat Adekunle Lebile, who scored one vote.

“I hereby pronounce Monday Olayemi the winner of the primary held in the Badagry Federal Constituency by the power vested on me,” declared Mr Avoseh. “Hence, he is now the candidate for the Badagry Federal Constituency for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), having scored the highest number of votes.”

The electoral officer also declared Gbenga Fayemi, the winner of the primary election for Badagry Constituency I, House of Assembly.

He added that Mr Fayemi scored 18 votes out of the 18 votes cast while Stephen Adenaike did not score any vote.

“I hereby pronounce Gbenga Fayemi the winner of the primary held in Badagry Constituency I by the power vested on me. Hence, he is now the candidate for the Badagry Constituency 1 of the PDP having scored the highest number of votes,” he said.

Meanwhile, the PDP Badagry local government chairwoman, Abidemi Akojenu, was not at the venue of the primary.

She stated that elections had been put on hold because of logistics issues around 1:00 p.m. when she was going to Lagos.

A PDP chieftain, who did not want his name mentioned, revealed that some delegates’ names were substituted to favour some aspirants.

The Lagos State Chapter of the PDP had urged the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) to cancel the House of Assembly and House of Representatives primaries slated for Sunday in Lagos.

Its chairman Philips Aivoji made the call at a news conference he addressed alongside other state executives of the party, governorship aspirants and party leaders in Ikeja.

He alleged the ad hoc delegates’ list brought by the electoral committees for both primaries were compromised.

(NAN)