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One of the candidates in the just conducted All Progressives Congress governorship primary in Lagos state, Mr. Tayo Ayinde, has attributed the victory of the eventual winner of the election, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, to aggressive campaign and intra-party popularity.

Ayinde, therefore, congratulated Ambode and pledged to support him as the party prepared for the February 2015 governorship polls.

His position was contained in a statement credited to his campaign organisations director of media and publicity, Peter Ajayi.

The statement read partly, As one of the contestants in the just conducted All Progressives Congress primary, I, Tayo Akinmade Ayinde, wish to congratulate Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode for his victory at the party primary.

His rigorous campaign activities, hard work and popularity within the party have been rewarded with a landslide victory.

As a loyalist of the APC, the victory of one of us, is victory for all. I shall continue to work for the interest of our party.

Ayinde was also reported to have thanked the national leader of the party, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, for providing what he described as an enabling environment and level playing ground for all of us.

He said, You (Tinubu) are a mentor and father of all. We shall continue to work with you for the interest and development of our great party and Nigeria.

While commending all the delegates who participated in the primary, Ayinde urged for unity in preparation for the February 2015 election.

He said, To all the members of the APC, the work has just started. What we just witnessed was an election within the party. The hurdle ahead is to win all elective positions in February, 2015. To achieve this, all hands must be on deck. All campaign structures should be collapsed into a more formidable one.

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The All Progressives Congress in Enugu State has accused the Peoples Democratic Party of wilfully destroying the campaign posters and billboards of the APC candidates in the state.

The state chairman of the APC, Dr. Ben Nwoye, who made the allegation at a news conference, said the party had already petitioned the security agencies over the development.

Nwoye said the destruction of APC billboards had intensified since the party elected Okey Ezea as its governorship candidate.

Nwoye said, Before the primary people were wondering if the PDP candidates were the only candidates in Enugu, but immediately after Okey Ezea emerged, we kicked off our publicity by mounting billboards.

The billboards were to advertise our candidate and to tell the world that here is our candidate.

Unfortunately, those who are interested in ensuring that there will be no democracy in Enugu and who have indeed found their own safe haven in PDP, who have perfected these acts of evil from 1999 to present, resurrected last night and went on a rampage and destroyed billboards mounted by us at Nsukka.

They also went to Obba and destroyed billboards mounted by our candidate for Igboeze North/Udenu Federal Constituency.

The APC chairman also alleged that the partys candidates and their supporters had been receiving death threats from an alleged PDP killer squad in the state.

He said, Before now, we get a lot of calls by members in Nsukka area, supporters of Okey Ezea, supporters of APC, have been receiving threats by the killer squad who have been groomed and put in place by the PDP leadership since 16 years ago.

They have perfected the act of intimidation and murderous movement.

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The All Progressives Congress in Enugu State has accused the Peoples Democratic Party of willfully destroying the campaign posters and billboards of its candidates.

The state chairman of the APC, Dr. Ben Nwoye, who made the allegation at a news conference, said the party had already petitioned the security agencies over the development.

Nwoye said the destruction of APC billboards had intensified since the party elected Barr. Okey Ezea as its governorship candidate.

Before the primary people were wondering if the PDP candidates were the only candidates in Enugu, but immediately

Okey Ezea emerged, we kicked off our publicity by mounting billboards.

The billboards were to advertise our candidate, to tell the world that here is our candidate.

Unfortunately, those who are interested in ensuring that there will be no democracy in Enugu and who have indeed found their own safe haven in PDP, who have perfected these acts of evil from 1999to present, resurrected last night and went on a rampage and destroyed billboards mounted by us at Nsukka.

They also went to Obba and destroyed billboards mounted by our candidate for Igboeze North/UdenuFederal Constituency, Nwoye said.

The APC chairman also alleged that the partys candidates and their supporters have been receiving death threats from a PDP killer squad in the state.

He said, Before now we get a lot of calls by members in Nsukka area, supporters of Okey Ezea, supporters of APC, have been receiving threats by the killer squad who have been groomed and put in place by thePDP leadership, since 16 years ago.

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Ambode and Fashola

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress for Lagos State governorship election in 2015 general elections, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode, on Monday visited the state Governor, Babatunde Fashola (SAN) in his office.

The visit was seen by many as the beginning of the end to the acrimony that trailed the APC governorship primary which pitted one of the national leaders of the APC, Senator Bola Tinubu against his political godson, Fashola.

Fashola had reportedly supported a former Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of the Justice in the state, Mr. Olasupo Shasore (SAN), while Tinubu backed Ambode.

Political observers had thought that the outcome of the primary would disunite the state APC and destroy the relationship between Fashola and Tinubu.

But Mondays visit of Ambode to Fashola and the governors well-publicised congratulatory message to the APC governorship candidate had put paid to this.

It was learnt that during the meeting, Ambode sought Fasholas support for next years election

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A leader of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State, Chief Francis Inegbeneki, has emerged winner of the partys primary election for Edo Central senatorial district.

Inegbeneki polled 852 votes to defeat three other aspirants.

The result showed that his closest rival Joe Okojie had 335 votes. Theo Okoh got 271 votes while Engineer Osadolor Ordia got a distant five votes.

A total of 1,463 votes were recorded as valid votes while six votes were rendered void.

Meanwhile, votes are still being counted (as of press time) in Edo South, were the Minority Whip of the Federal House of Representatives, Samson Osagie, and the Chief of Staff to the Edo State Governor, Patrick Obahiagbon, are strong contenders.

The result from Edo North, which has incumbent Senator Domingo Obende, is yet to be announced as of 7:15pm when our correspondent filed this report.

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