He defeated former Minister for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro with 432 votes as against Obanikoro's 346 votes. The other aspirants, Babatunde Gbadamosi got 21 votes, Tokunbo Kamson 46 votes and Adedeji Doherty 21 votes.
However, the primary was almost marred by violence following controversy that surrounded the number of votes cast by delegates.
The Chairman of the electoral Committee Senator Shehu Kano announced that there were 806 delegates who had cast their votes,. But when the votes were counted, it was discovered that there were 863 votes. Try as much as possible to tally the number of votes with the number of delegates proved abortive.
Immediately after the announcement, Jimi Agbaje thanked the Committee and promised to work with the other aspirants.
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