Nigeria’s biggest opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Thursday held its governorship primaries across the country, ahead of the 2015 general elections.
Results of fifteen states produced the following candidates:
Akin Ambode, (Lagos State)
Aminu Tambuwal in (Sokoto State)
Umana Okon Umana (Akwa Ibom State)
Dagogo Peterside (Rivers State)
Olorogun Atega Emerhor, (Delta State)
Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello (Niger State)
Ibikunle Amosun of (Ogun State)
Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara State)
Abiola Ajimobi, (Oyo State)
Abdulaziz Yeri, (Zamfara State)
Tanko Al-Makura (Nasarawa State)
Ibrahim Gaidam (Yobe State)
Nasir El’Rufai (Kaduna State)
Okey Ezea, (Enugu State)
Senator Aisha Alhassan (Taraba State)
Inuwa Yahaya (Gombe State)
Outcome of the primaries in Kano and Plateau are yet to be made known, while Cross-River, Benue, Imo and Jigawa states were postponed.
