Lead visioner of Lagos4Lagos Movement Olajide Adediran aka Jandor had emerged as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State.
Declaring the result in Ikeja, chairman of the Lagos PDP electoral committee/returning officer, Emmanuel Ogidi, said on Wednesday that Jandor scored 679 votes to defeat his contender David Vaughan who polled 20 votes.
Ogidi, who noted that there were 775 ad hoc delegates for the primaries, said that 709 were accredited for the election.
According to him, 10 votes were voided in the election.
Ogidi said: “The total number of accredited voters is 709, and Olajide Adediran got 679 votes, DAKOVA (David Kolawole Vaughan had 20 and we had 10 voided votes.
“Haven satisfied all the requirements in our guidelines, I want to announce Dr Olajide Adediran as our candidate after scoring the highest votes of 679. He is hereby declared the winner and returned elected.”
Speaking after the election, Jandor pledged to sit with all aspirants and leaders of the party to tap from their wealth of knowledge and experience in a bid to win Lagos for PDP.
Four contestants including Olanrewaju Jim-Kamal, Adedeji Doherty, Ade Dosunmu and Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour stepped down from the race.
