Mr Olujimi Agbaje has been declared the winner of the Lagos PDP governorship primaries.
Agbaje scored 434 votes to defeat former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro.
Mr Tokunbo Kamson scored 46, Engineer Deji Doherty scored 21, while Mr Babatunde Gbadamosi also scored 21 votes.
About 846 delegates across the 20 local government areas of the state participated in the governorship primaries.
Obanikoro scored 346
Announcing the winner of the primaries, chairman of the governorship electoral committee, Senator Saidu, Umar Kumo said “I hereby declare Mr Jimi Agbaje as the candidate of the PDP for the. 2015 governorship elections.”
The exercise was nearly marred by violence following a controversy which surrounded the number of votes cast by the delegates.
When the voting started, the Chairman of the electoral committee, Senator Shehu Kumo, announced that there were 806 delegates.
But when votes were being sorted, it was discovered that the number of votes cast were 863.
All efforts to get the number of votes and the number of delegates to tally proved abortive but Kumo insisted that the exercise should continue.
Amid the resistance by supporters of some of the aspirants, about 60 armed policemen formed a barricade around the ballot boxes and ensured that the counting continued.
When tables and chairs were overturned at the centre, Obanikoro immediately stormed out.
Immediately after the announcement, Agbaje commended the committee and promised to work with other aspirants.
As the tension heightened, about 200 policemen and operatives of the Department of State Service stormed the venue. Agbaje was whisked away before policemen began firing gunshots into the air.
It was however victory galore for many of the PDP governors as most of their preferred candidates triumphed during the race in their states.
But the Acting Governor of Adamawa State, Bala Ngilari, had a shocker as he was beaten by a former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nuhu Ribadu, at the old Parade Ground, Abuja where the exercise for the state took place.
There were however boycotts and protests by many aspirants in states like Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Ogun and Oyo.
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