Dr. Ahmed Ibeto, Chairman of the party’s governorship primary election committee, announced Sule as winner.
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While announcing the result, the Chairman of the Congress Committee, Dr. Baraka Sani, said the total number of delegates were 2,894, while the total number of votes cast was 2,779, with two invalid votes.
Makinde, who contested with one other aspirant, Senator Ayo Adeseun, scored 2,772 votes to secure the PDP ticket while the second contestant scored 21 votes.
While Saraki and Ahmed openly declared their decision to dump the All Progressives Congress for the PDP on Tuesday, Ibeto, according to a report, resigned his appointment as ambassador on Monday and headed to his home state, Niger, where he has quietly joined the PDP.
A report by The Eagle Online on Monday had it that the Niger State chapter of the PDP had become divided over the choice of Ibeto as the governorship candidate of the party for the 2019 election
Spokesman of the aspirants, Engr. Mustapha Bello, said at a joint press conference at the IBB Pen House on Monday that Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu’s attitude violated the rules and guidelines of the party primaries