Chief Rotimi Akeredolu, (SAN), a former President of Nigeria Bar Association was on Saturday elected the candidate of All Progressives Congress for Ondo State gubernatorial election.
Akeredolu scored 669 votes to emerge candidate of APC in the election, defeating Segun Abraham rumoured to be favoured for the position by some party chieftains by 34 votes in the keenly contested primary.
Chief Olusola Oke came third in the primary, though he joined APC from PDP just after the 2015 election.
Akeredolu was also the candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria which joined other parties to form APC in the 2012 presidential election.
24 persons contested for the gubernatorial ticket in the primary which ended on early Sunday morning supervised by Mohammed Abubakar, the governor of Jigawa State.
More later.
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