Bukola Saraki To Contest The Kwara Central Senatorial District Sit With Former Aide

 
Former Special Adviser to former Governor
Bukola Saraki of Kwara state, Alhaji Yinka Aluko,
has emerged as the Kwara central senatorial
candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for
next year's National Assembly elections in the
state.
Aluko polled 83 votes to defeat his closest rival,
Abdulrahaman Abdulrasaq, while Princess
Bilikisu Gambari came third with five votes.
Also yesterday, the Chairman, Senate Committee
on Environment and Ecology, Senator Bukola
Saraki, emerged unopposed with 1,540 votes at
the All Progressives Congress (APC), primaries
held in Ilorin, the state capital.
Aluko and Saraki will now slug it out at the
February next year National Assembly elections
for Kwara central senatorial district of the state.
Saraki described Aluko as a nobody, even as he
mocked the PDP for his emergence.
He told his supporters in Yoruba that: "if Aluko
who was a product of the Saraki's political
dynasty could beat other candidates to emerge,
that shows that those in the PDP lack political
relevance".
The leader of the APC in the state advised his
supporters to go back to their various wards and
mobilise support to ensure a victory for the party
in the 2015 general election.
Chairman of the APC senatorial primaries in the
state, Mr. Harry Mosunmola Osha, had declared
Saraki the party's candidate having scored 1,540
votes out of the total 1,545 votes cast.
He said five votes were invalid.
Meanwhile, delegates of the PDP for Kwara North
senatorial district primary election has elected
Hon. Yinusa Yahaya as its candidate by
defeating Alhaji Manzuma Mammah with 108
votes to 101.
For the Kwara South senatorial district, Mr.
Lola Ashiru was declared winner with 132 votes.
He defeated other aspirants like Alhaji Bashir Oni
(16 votes), Prince Sola Adedoyin (11 votes) and
Yekeen Alabi (64 votes).

Ogun PDP Shuns NWC Order, Conducts Guber
Primary
• APC postpone senatorial primary

Despite directives from the National Working
Committee (NWC) of the PDP not to conduct
governorship primaries in Ogun State, the state
chapter of the party went ahead to conduct the
election to elect former governorship candidate
of the Peoples Party of Nigeria in the 2011
election, Prince Gboyega Nasir Isiaka, as its
standard-bearer for next year's poll.
The NWC of the party had directed that no
governorship primary election should hold in the
state. The party in a statement issued by its
National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, in
Abuja yesterday said that the primary was not
authorised.
While disobeying the order, the state chapter of
the party commenced voting around 3pm amidst
tight security. The election witnessed attendance
of Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) officials.
However, the eight aspirants who boycotted the
Ogun PDP governorship primaries which held
inside the state secretariat of the party in
Abeokuta included Chief Tony Ojesina, Prince
Yanju Lipede, Dr. Remilekun Bakare, Alhaji
Sarafa Tunji Ishola, Dr. Yomi Majekodunmi, Prof.
David Bamgbose, Hon. Isiaq Akinlade, Alhaji Rafiu
Ogunleye and former speaker of the House of
Representatives, Dimeji Bankole.
But the state chairman of the party, Mr. Bayo
Dayo, said he was not aware of the cancellation
of the governorship primaries in the state.
Meanwhile, the APC has postponed it's
senatorial primaries in Ogun Central Senatorial
district, while it was held peacefully in Ogun
West and Ogun East Senatorial districts. The
party earlier yesterday issued a statement
stating when repeat primary elections for the
House of Representatives in the three federal
constituencies where the process was
inconclusive.