EFCC suspect Ize-Iyamu emerges Edo APC guber candidate

Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, who currently facing a N700 million money laundering charges with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday emerged winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election in Edo State.

Chairman of the APC Primary Election Committee and Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma disclosed this in Benin City, the state capital.

Ize-Iyamu won the party’s primary after polling 27, 838 votes to defeat his rivals, Pius Odubu who garnered 3,776 votes and Osaro Obaze who got 2,724 votes respectively.

Following this development, he automatically becomes the APC flag bearer for the September 19 governorship election in the state.

Reacting to the electoral process, Uzodinma said the election was a formality in accordance with the guidelines of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the other aspirants had already stepped down before the polls.

Shortly before the commencement of the election, APC members had thronged their respective wards to vote in the party’s primary election.

The exercise held across the 192 wards of the 18 local government areas of the state.

NEWSVERGE report that Justice M.G. Umar of the Federal High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State on March 2, 2020 adjourned the money laundering case brought against Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, a former governorship candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP in the state and four others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC until March 26, 2020.

The other four defendants are Lucky Imasuen, former Deputy Governor of Edo State; Chief Dan Orbih, PDP Chairman in Edo State; Tony Aziegbemi and Efe Erimuoghae.

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