Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has emerged the winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election conducted today in Edo State.

Announcing the result of the primary election in Benin City on Monday, Hope Uzodinma, Governor of Imo State and chairman of the election panel, said Ize-Iyamu polled 27,388 votes ahead of Pius Odubu, his closest rival who secured 3,776 votes.

“Iyamu having scored highest in the primary election is hereby returned candidate of the APC in the coming governorship election,” he said.

Uzodinma sounded boastful when he said: “This election is one of the most clinically exercised in the history of elections in Nigeria. This state which originally belongs to the APC will return to the APC after the governorship election.”

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