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| Tonye Cole. |
The co-founder and Group Executive Director of Sahara Group, Tonye Cole, has won the All Progressives Congress Party, APC’s governorship primaries in Rivers State.
Cole
defeated three other candidates who turned up at the primary to emerge as the
party’s governorship candidate in the state for the 2023 general elections.
The
businessman polled a total of 986 votes to defeat Ojukaye Flag Amachree,
Seconte Davies, Ibinabo West, and Benrard Mikko, who scored 190, 47, 43 and 2
to come a distant second, third and fouth respectively.
The
Chairman, Rivers State APC Governorship Primaries Election, Larry Odey, who
announced the result said a total of 1308 delegates were accredited while 1295
voted; 1285 votes were valid while 12 votes were voided.
Meanwhile
the winner, Tonye Cole, in his acceptance speech, urged Senator Magnus Abe to
sheath swords, saying that the primary was the most transparent electoral
process he has witnessed, promised to industrialise the state if elected in the
main elections next year.
According to him, “I
had made a promise to suppprt anyone who emerges winner at the primaries including
Sen Magnus Abe, and I want to use this medium to urge him to lay down his
sword. Let us all work together,” he stated.
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