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Ex-speaker Bankole joins 2023 presidential race

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Former House of Representatives Speaker Hon. Dimeji Bankole has joined the presidential race.

He is set to buy nomination form of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) next week.

A close ally of the former Speaker, Malam Abdullahi Bayero, confirmed this to The Nation in Kaduna on Wednesday.

According to him: “Right Honourable Dimeji Bankole is in the race and he is contesting on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

“He has met with various stakeholders and their support is overwhelming, especially across the North. So, he is set to buy the APC nomination form next week.

“Many see him as someone who ticked all the boxes as far as having a young, smart, competent and patriotic president is concerned.

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“Just like former military president Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida posited, Nigeria needs a young leader. I think there should be no debate over that even though the constitution did not stop old men from running for office.

“There are many northerners who believe Bankole is the right man to be supported, recalling how he handled the situation when then President Umaru Yar’adua took ill while in office. He is a candidate the North, indeed Nigeria as whole can trust,” Bayero said.

Bankole was recently in Kaduna as special guest of honour at the 16th annual Ramadan lecture by the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) and Voice of Nigeria (VON).

It was learnt that the former speaker used his presence in the northern State to meet many stakeholders who have since assured him of support.

Bankole, who was the 2019 governorship candidate of Action Democratic Party (ADP) in Ogun State, officially registered as a member of the APC in March 2021.

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Oyo local govt poll: PDP wins all chairmanship seats

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Oyo local govt poll: PDP wins all chairmanship seats

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has achieved a landslide victory in the Oyo state local government election.

This is as the candidates of the PDP won all the chairmanship positions in the 33 local government areas of the south west state.

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The Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission, OYSIEC, conducted the election on Saturday.

OYSIEC on Sunday declared PDP candidates as winners of the election in all the 33 LGAs.

The results were announced at OYSIEC’s office in Ibadan, the state capital.

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BREAKING: Agboola wins Ondo PDP primary

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BREAKING: Agboola wins Ondo PDP primary

A former deputy governor in Ondo state, Hon Ajayi Agboola has won the ongoing People’s Democratic Party governorship primary election in the state.

He polled 264 votes of the 621 votes cast during the contest.

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The former Scretary General of the Pan Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere, Chief Sola Ebiseni may come second in the contest.

Agboola was the former deputy governor to the late governor Rotimi Akeredolu before they parted ways following irreconcilable differences.

Attempt to impeach Ajayi during the crisis between him and the late Akeredolu failed

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BREAKING: APC NWC in peace talks with Aiyedatiwa, other Ondo gov aspirants

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BREAKING: APC NWC in peace talks with Aiyedatiwa, other Ondo gov aspirants

The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC) is currently holding a closed-door peace meeting with Governor Lucky Ayiedatiwa and fifteen other aspirants in the April 20 Ondo state governorship primary election.

Ayiedatiwa was declared the winner by Governor Usman Ododo-led Primary Election Committee in the early hours of Sunday, April 21, after the shadow election in the 203 wards of the 18 local government areas of the state.

All the aspirants but Hon. Wale Akinterinwa and Hon. Isaacs Kekemeke are in attendance.

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Those in attendance are Governor Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa, Olusoji Adewale Ehinlanwo, a former member of the State House of Assembly, Hon. Olugbenga Omogbemi Edema, and business magnate, Senator Jimoh Ibrahim Folorunsho.

Others are Engr. (Mrs.) Funmilayo Waheed-Adekojo, Hon. Akinfolarin Mayo Samuel, legal luminary, Chief Olusola Alexander Oke, SAN, Ohunyeye Olamide Felix, and Barr. Morayo Lebi.

Also in attendance are Garvey Oladiran Iyanjan, Prof. Francis Adebayo Faduyile, and Engr. (Mrs) Judith Folakemi Omogoroye, President Unilag Alumni (Worldwide), Engr. Ifeoluwa Olusola Oyedele and Hon. Omo’Oba Okunjimi Odimayo John.

BREAKING: APC NWC in peace talks with Aiyedatiwa, other Ondo gov aspirants

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