Senator Monday Okpebholo has emerged as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the September 21 election in Edo.
Chairman of the APC supplementary primary election committee Governor Bassey Otu of Cross River announced this on Friday in Benin.
Otu said the Edo Central senator got 12,433 votes to defeat 11 other aspirants in the contest.
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Chairman of the APC primary election committee Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo had on February 17 declared Dennis Idahosa, a member of the House of Representatives representing Ovia Federal Constituency, as winner of the primaries.
However, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling party upturned the results and declared the election inconclusive following controversies that greeted the exercise.
The committee ordered that a supplementary primary be conducted on Thursday, and replaced Uzodimma with Otu as chairman.
Idahosa, who led in the first ballot with 4,483, ended the re-run with 6,541 votes.
