- By Femi Alabi
Lamidi Apapa led faction of the Labour Party LP has submitted the name of Barr. Anderson Uwadiae Asemoya as the Gubernatorial candidate for Edo State.
The faction in a letter addressed to Independent National Electoral Commission INEC confirmed their candidates for the gubernatorial election.
“We write to submit the names of our candidates that emerges from our Governorship primary election conducted today in Benin Edo State
“Governorship Candidate Barr Anderson Uwadiae Asemota. Deputy Governorship Candidate, Barr. Monday Ojore Mawah,” the letter stated.
NPO reports had earlier reported that the former National President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Olumide Akpata, had emerged as the Labour Party, LP, governorship candidate in Edo State.