Chijioke Edoga, a former aide of President Goodluck Jonathan has emerged winner of the Labour Party gubernatorial primary in Enugu State.
Edeoga, a former Chairman, House Committee on Information of the House of the Representatives was the sole aspirant in the primary won with 81 votes.
Chigozie Ahanudu, the Deputy National Secretary and the Chairman, Enugu State Governorship Electoral Committee, declared the result of the primary.
According to him, 85 delegates were accredited for the primary election and out of the 85, 81 delegates voted for Hon Chijoke Edeoga.
“By the powers conferred on me as the Chairman of the Enugu State Governorship Electoral Committee, I Kennedy Chigozie Ahanudu, declared Hon Chijoke Edeoga, having scored the highest number of votes cast he is hereby declared the winner of the Labour Party Governorship Primary election in Enugu State.”
The primary election was sequel to the withdrawal of the former Governorship Candidate of the party, Mr Casmir Agbo from the race.
Earlier, Ahanudu had told the delegates that though there was one aspirant in the primary, however, the party will not impose him on the party, that was why the election was being held, Punch reports.
“We are not going to impose anybody on you. So whoever the delegates elected today will be our choice of governorship,” he said.
In his acceptance speech, Edeoga thanked the party for finding and offering him its platform to actualise the dream of freeing Enugu people from political buccerners.
He promised not to let the party down.
The governorship candidate said, “I am resolved to put the Labour Party in all the wards in Enugu State. I will systematically and carefully dismantle the Peoples Democratic Party in Enugu State. If there is anybody in Enugu State to do that I am the one. I have the knowledge and the capacity to do that.
“I was a founding member of PDP and it was not set to humble the Igbo people. I was a founding member of PDP and close.
“We are going to help the PDP to dismantle all its structures in Enugu State.
“I assure you that the vote you cast for me will not be in vain. You have sent me to the market and I will not return empty handed.”
