The immediate past secretary of the Ekiti state government, BIODUN OYEBANJI has emerged the winner of the All Progressives Congress governorship primary election.

OYEBANJI won the APC party’s Primary election with 101,703 votes to defeat other seven aspirants who had earlier protested the process and called for its cancellation.

The chairman of the Ekiti state APC primary election committee and governor of Jigawa state, ABUBAKAR BADARU said the voting exercise that took place across the 177 wards in the state was peaceful and credible.

The winner, BIODUN OYEBANJI also dismissed claims by the other aspirants that the exercise was rigged, saying that it was done according to the rules.