BREAKING: Jimi Agbaje wins Lagos PDP governorship primaries

A leading candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos state, Jimi Agbaje, has won the party’s primary in the state.

Mr Agbaje polled 1,100 votes to defeat Deji Doherty, who polled 742 votes.

The chairman of the election panel, Victor Oyofo, declared him the party’s flag bearer ahead of the governorship election next year.

Mr Agbaje, a pharmacist, was the party flag bearer in 2015. He, however, lost to the incumbent governor Akinwunmi Ambode of the All Progressives Congress.