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Following two different primaries in two different locations, two candidates may emerge in the All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries for the Imo North Senatorial by-election held Thursday.
Barring last minute changes, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume, a regular favourite and Chief Frank Ibezim, the governor’s choice, will emerge from their various APC camps.
Two factions of the party held parallel primaries across the six local government areas in the district to produce candidates for the senatorial by-election.
There was no official results at the time of this report but a faction of the party backed by Senator Ifeanyi Araraume and Senator Rochas Okorocha held direct primaries in which Senator Ifeanyi Araraume was already coasting home to victory.
The other faction, loyal to Governor Hope Uzodimma and the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, is most likely to produce Frank Ibezim who they earlier tipped as their consensus candidate.
As at the time of this report Araraume and Ibezim were leading their different factions by a wide margin
A total of eleven candidates contested the parallel elections.
