Nigerian pop star, Bankole Wellington, popularly known as Banky W, was on Monday declared the winner of the PDP primary rerun for the Eti-Osa constituency House of Representatives ticket in the 2023 general election after last week’s overturning of his victory.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that Banky W recorded a landslide victory, polling 24 votes out of 29 votes cast by delegates at the primary rerun held in Lagos on Monday.
He contested against a legal practitioner, Mr Sam Aiboni, who polled five votes in the rerun election.
A video on his campaign Instagram page showed the counting of the votes, as attendees chanted victory songs and lifted him up in the air.
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This comes two weeks after he was earlier declared winner in the election but the result slip showed his challenger, Aiboni, as the winner.
Following the controversies that trailed the primary, another election was scheduled for today (Monday).
Announcing his victory, Banky W’s campaign team said, “While we are grateful for our success at the primaries, we are completely heartbroken at the state of our nation.
Banky W had last week Tuesday notched the party’s ticket in Eti-Osa federal constituency, Lagos.
Wellington polled a total of 28 votes to beat his opponent to the PDP’s ticket.
Africa Daily News, New York also recalls that Wellington, on 11 November 2018, Wellington announced his intent to run for the Lagos’ Eti-Osa Federal Constituency seat in Nigeria’s House of Representatives, on the platform of the Modern Democratic Party, (MDP) founded in 2017.
On 23 February 2019, Wellington lost the Eti-Osa Federal Constituency Elections to Babajide Obanikoro of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC.
