Ex-NBA President Akpata wins Edo Labour Party governorship primary

The immediate past President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olumide Akpata, this evening, emerged the governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Edo State, in his first attempt at governing Edo from November 12, and succeeding Governor Godwin Obaseki of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), after emerging victorious on September 21.

Akpata, an indigene of Benin Kingdom in Edo South Senatorial District, who polled 316 votes, defeated a billionaire philanthropist, Kenneth Imansuangbon, also a lawyer, who hails from Ewohimi in Esan Southeast Local Government Area, Edo Central Senatorial District of Edo state, but had seven votes, despite aspiring to be Edo governor in over twenty years.

The Chairman of LP’s governorship indirect primary election committee, Ikechukwu Emetu, the Deputy Governor of Abia State, declared the collated results from 4:15 p.m. at Bishop Kelly Pastoral Centre of St. Paul’s Catholic Church, Airport Road, Benin.