2027: Edo ADC Picks Ex-Assembly Majority Leader, Former PDP National Women Leader, 34 Others As Candidates For Legislative Election

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Thirty-six candidates, including a former Majority Leader of the Edo State House of Assembly, Matthew Iduoriyekemwen, and Herberta Okonofua, former national women leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are to fly the flag of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the 2027 general elections.
Chairman of the National and State House of Assembly Primary Election Committee, Ebiowei Olomu Olomu said after the exercise on Friday, that three aspirants emerged as senatorial candidates, nine for the House of Representatives and 24 for the Edo State House of Assembly.

Olomu said the aim of the ADC was to take over government in 2027. Appealing to all aspirants to close ranks, he said, “we all can see the suffering Nigerians are going through – the insecurity, the high cost of living” and appealed to all aspirants “to work together to be able to achieve our objectives. We appeal to anybody aggrieved by the conduct of the primary election to appeal to the committee set up by the national.”

Announcing the results, Olomu said Iduoriyekemwen, who represented Edo in the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, emerged as the Edo South Senatorial District candidate on consensus, polling 23,174 votes; Mrs. Herberta Inemezele Okonofua also emerged as consensus candidate for Edo Central Senatorial District, garnering 4,898 votes, while Prince Musa Jerry Braimo of Edo North, emerged with 14,992 votes.

He said the candidates for the nine House of Representatives positions similarly emerged through consensus. In Egor/Ikpoba-Okha Federal Constituency, Ekundayo Ukponwan emerged with 5,595 votes; Louis Ejedeavwe Ebodaghe, Esan Central/Esan West/Igueben Federal Constituency with 3,531 votes; Ighalo Paulson Odion for Esan North-East/Esan South-East with 1,339 votes; Bright Egharevba for Orhionmwon/Uhunmwonde Federal Constituency with 5,114 votes; and Braimah Yakubu for Etsako Federal Constituency who emerged with 10,228 votes.

Others were Shedrach Idugbai, Owan Federal Constituency with 961 votes; Osazemen Ehigie-Uzamere, Ovia Federal Constituency with 1,926 votes; Ateri Nelson Kayode, Akoko-Edo Federal Constituency with 3,312 votes; and Osamwonyi Williams Irowa for Oredo Federal Constituency with 2,010 votes.

Speaking on his victory, Iduoriyekemwen, former commissioner with the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, said he was happy that the party had offered him the platform to contest the 2027 senatorial election, boasting that there is no politician in Edo South Senatorial District that understands the zone better than himself.

He said, “I am happy that ADC has given me the opportunity to be its candidate for the 2027 Senatorial election. There is no politician in Edo South that knows the zone more than me. I am a grassroots politician.”