Senator Ashafa loses, Tinubu, Adeola win Lagos Senatorial primaries
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in the results of the senatorial primaries imasuen said sen.oluremi tinubu who was unopposed polled 89494 votes to emerge as candidate for lagos central1 senator gbenga ashafa has lost his bid to return to the senate for a third term on the platform of the all progressives congress1 ashafa was expected to run unopposed in the primary as osinowo was not originally cleared by the national working committee of the apc to stand in the election. it was not clear when the nwc gave osinowo the nod to run for the seat1 as far as the ashafa support group is concerned the result may be a nullity as ashafa only went into the primary for affirmation. in . other words he ran against himself1 hon. bayo did not scale through the screening of the party and so could not contest an election. senator gbenga ashafa only came out to be affirmed by his constituents the group tweeted on friday1 the news agency of nigeria nan reports the primaries including a repeat of the senatorial primary election were held on friday1 the senatorial primaries initially held on thursday but were cancelled and rescheduled owing to logistic issues1 announcing the results in ikeja chairman of the committee mr lucky imasuen said the primaries were contested for the three senatorial seats 24 house of representatives and 40 state house of assembly seats 1 the 63 year-old senator lost by a wide margin the primary for the lagos east ticket to a four-term house of assembly member bayo osinowo according to the results announced saturday by the all progressives congress apc electoral committee of the national assembly and state house of assembly primaries in lagos1 for lagos west the committee chairman said the incumbent sen. olamilekan solomon emerged winner with 378906 votes as against the 1179 votes scored by mr kayode opeifa and mrs. areago olopades 1275 votes 1 imasuen a former deputy governor of edo state added that a member of the state house of assembly mr . bayo osinowo defeated the incumbent sen. gbenga ashafa with 247743 votes to emerge candidate for the lagos east senatorial district1 he disclosed that ashafa the incumbent polled 20385 in the primary1 imasuen said the details of the house of representatives and state house of assembly primaries results were ready and that they would be released later1 he described the exercise as peaceful and successful1 the primaries were peaceful and successful1 we thank the state chapter led by tunde balogun for the support for the committee1 we also thank all other stakeholders including all members of our party in the state for making the conduct a success he said1