Politics
2027: Eight Ibadan men, three others battle for Oyo APC guber ticket
No fewer than 11 aspirants purchased the expression of interest and nomination forms on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, ahead of the 2027 gubernatorial election in Oyo State, DAILY POST reports.
Eight of the aspirants are indigenes of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, while two are from the Oke Ogun geopolitical zone.
DAILY POST also learnt that one indigene of Ogbomoso purchased the APC form.
The eleven aspirants who have been screened by the party in Abuja are Senator Sharafadeen Alli (Ibadan), Mr Bayo Adelabu (Ibadan), Dr Adewale Kareem (Ibadan), Barrister Akeem Agbaje (Ibadan) and Engineer Akeem Alao (Ibadan).
Others are Dr Ayobami Lam-Adesina (Ibadan), Prince Asanke Asatola (Ibadan) and Mr Ololade Usman (Ibadan).
The rest are Senator Abdulfatai Buhari (Ogbomoso), Dr Muyiwa Gbadegesin (Oke Ogun) and Engineer Rauf Olaniyan (Oke Ogun).
DAILY POST reports that there are five political zones in Oyo State, cutting across the 33 local government areas in the state. They include: Ibadan, Ibarapa, Ogbomoso, Oke Ogun and Oyo.
DAILY POST reports that since the beginning of the current fourth republic in 1999, all the governors in the state came from Ibadan except the late Adebayo Alao-Akala who hailed from Ogbomoso.
Late Alhaji Lamidi Adesina who ruled between 1999 and 2003 is from Ibadan South East local government area.
The current Olubadan of Ibadanland Oba, Rasidi Ladoja Ladoja who ruled between 2003 and 2007 is from Ibadan South West, but lives in Ibadan North local government area.
Late Adebayo Alao-Akala was the only person from outside Ibadan to occupy that position since 1999.
Alao-Akala ruled between 2007 and 2011. Alao-Akala hailed from Ogbomoso North local government area.
Late Abiola Ajimobi who hailed from Ibadan South East, lived in Ibadan South West local government area before he died in 2020. Ajimobi was the first governor to spend two terms and ruled between 2011 and 2019.
The current governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, who is expected to finish his second term in 2027, hails from Ona Ara local government area but votes in Ibadan North East local government area.
Our correspondent reports that this time around, the race to Agodi government house within the APC is between eight Ibadan men, two Oke Ogun indigenes and one Ogbomoso man.
As of the time of filing this report, all the 11 aspirants have been screened by the party.
They are going to slog it out for the APC ticket ahead of the 2027 gubernatorial election, with so much underground politicking already going on.
A chieftain of the party in one of the local government areas in Ibadan, noted that the party had taken a decision to pick someone as a consensus candidate.
The APC chieftain, who spoke with DAILY POST on Monday, claimed that one of the aspirants has emerged as the consensus candidate.
He said, “I am the party’s returning officer in my local government. The party has taken a decision over the selection of the flag bearer. We have been told the consensus candidate.“
Meanwhile, a senior lecturer at Lead City University, Ibadan, Dr Bayonle Busari, described the multiple number of aspirants in APC as a welcome development.
He said that the emergence of the candidate should not be a matter of where they come from but a matter of their pedigree.
He said, “I see the number of aspirants for the gubernatorial ticket in the APC as a welcome development, particularly if you consider the credentials and calibre of the aspirants.
“We have a former federal minister and former deputy governor of the Central Bank, a former deputy governor of the state, a serving senator of the Federal Republic, engineers, international entrepreneurs, technocrats, and financial experts. They are eminently qualified citizens of the state in their own individual right.
“I would rather not see any of the aspirants from where they hail from but be concerned about their pedigree, antecedents, and how they can bring about expected deliverables to better the lots of the state and her downtrodden citizens.
“It is high time we began looking at the quality of someone who aspired to public office rather than being concerned with their origin, except if this will have a bearing on the performance in the office they seek to occupy.”
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A former Chairman of Aare Latosa Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Oyo State, Hon. Adekunle Oladeji, has dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Oladeji, who left the APC, has joined the Allied Peoples Movement (APM).
DAILY POST gathered that Oladeji served as chairman of the LCDA during the tenure of the immediate past governor of the state, Senator Abiola Ajimobi.
The LCDA is one of the LCDAs under Ibadan North Local Government Area.
Our correspondent gathered that Oladeji’s father, Alhaji B.A.O. Oladeji, served as Oyo South Senatorial District Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), one of the political parties that merged to form the APC between 2014 and 2015.
His father remains a major stakeholder in the APC in the state.
DAILY POST gathered that while the father remains a key figure in the APC, the son has moved to the APM.
It was learnt that the younger Oladeji has publicly declared his support for the APM governorship candidate, Mr. Bimbo Adekanmbi, and Governor Seyi Makinde, who is the party’s presidential candidate.
Oladeji, when contacted, confirmed the development to DAILY POST on Saturday.
Speaking, he noted that he had dumped the APC and joined the APM ahead of the 2027 elections.
In a short message sent to DAILY POST, Oladeji said the news of his defection to the APM was true.
“Yes. It is confirmed,” he said.
2027: Ex-Oyo LG chair, Oladeji dumps APC for APM
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The Imo State Chairman of the Action Peoples Party, APP, Ernest Njesi, has declared the party’s readiness to participate in the forthcoming general elections, maintaining that the party has fielded candidates for all elective positions.
Njesi made the assertion during a media chat with journalists in Owerri, where he disclosed that the APP is not only prepared but also fully optimistic that its 2027 outing will be a successful one.
The Imo APP chairman stated that the party has already registered all its candidates with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and is battle-ready to win many elective seats.
“We have presented before INEC three senatorial candidates, 10 House of Representatives candidates, and 27 candidates for the State House of Assembly, and they have all been approved to participate in the 2027 electoral contest,” he said.
Njesi added that the party will continue visiting communities across the state to encourage the electorate to support the party and educate them about its programmes.
He further said that the party leadership in the state is using the medium to condemn the alleged attack on its secretariat and the destruction of its billboards, an act he claimed was orchestrated by political opponents in the state.
Njesi, however, maintained that no political intimidation can stop the party from participating in the forthcoming general elections.
He advised other political parties to channel their energy into selling their manifestoes to the electorate rather than engaging in political violence.
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By Luminous Jannamike
ABUJA — The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Interim National Working Committee, under its Chairman, Kabiru Turaki, SAN, has held a closed-door meeting with former President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja, in what appeared to be the party’s first high-level consultation following the Federal High Court judgment on a suit instituted by the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT).
Although neither the PDP nor the former president disclosed the purpose of the meeting, party sources said the discussions centred on the implications of the court’s decision and what it means for the party as it seeks to resolve its lingering leadership dispute.
Led by Turaki, the delegation visited Jonathan at his residence in the Federal Capital Territory. The party did not disclose the identities of other members of the team, neither did it issue a statement after the meeting.
The consultation came days after the Federal High Court in Abuja struck out a suit filed by the PDP Board of Trustees seeking an order directing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise the Kabiru Turaki-led interim National Working Committee and publish its details on the commission’s records.
The court upheld the preliminary objections raised by INEC and other defendants, holding that the plaintiffs lacked the legal standing to institute the action and that it had no jurisdiction to entertain the suit.
Delivering the judgment, Justice Salim Ibrahim said, “The court does not decide hypothetical or academic questions,” adding that the evidence before it showed INEC had monitored the PDP convention that produced the rival leadership recognised by the electoral umpire.
He further held that the suit sought to reopen issues already settled in previous proceedings before striking it out.
A source familiar with the meeting told Sunday Vanguard, “The discussion was essentially on the implications of the judgment. The delegation briefed the former president on the outcome of the case and sought his views on the way forward for the party.”
The meeting comes at a critical time for the opposition party as it continues efforts to steady its leadership and respond to legal and political developments ahead of future electoral activities.
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