By Ehigimetor Igbaugba
President Bola Tinubu has emerged the winner of the presidential primary elections of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River.
Gov. Bassey Otu, who served as the State Returning Officer and Coordinator, made the declaration in Calabar on Saturday.
He explained that the number of registered voters was 121, 260 but 113,912 votes were cast.
Otu said that while President Tinubu scored 113,911 votes from the total vote cast, his opponent, Mr Stanley Osifo, pulled zero votes.
He, however, noted that the final announcement of the overall winner of the primary would be made in Abuja.
“As you can see, our work here is done, which is to announce what we had in Cross River. We shall transmit the results to Abuja, where it will be computed with results got from other states.
“We are pleased to announced Cross River result after a hectic day. As you all know, the topography of the State delayed the collation and subsequent announcement of this result,” he explained.
Mr Peter Odey, the Deputy Governor; Mr Elvert Ayambem, Speaker of the state House of Assembly; members of the National Assembly, among others were present at the event.(NAN)