Folarin Wins PDP Guber Ticket In Oyo

 
Former Senate Leader Teslim Folarin in Ibadan
emerged the PDP candidate in Oyo State in the
primary election.
But the outcome of the exercise is being
contested by another aspirant, Seyi Makinde,
who stayed away. .
A total of 211 delegates voted in the primary
with Folarin having 167 votes. A former governor
of the state, Adebayo Alao-Akala, who also
stayed away from the exercise, had two votes
while Alhaji Hazeem Gbolarumi, a former deputy
governor to Alao-Akala, had 12 votes.
However, Alao-Akala, who addressed his
supporters in Ogbomoso while the primary was
going on in Ibadan said he was still in the race
for the governorship election and that he would
announce his next political move soon.
Ladoja Emerges Oyo AP governorship candidate
Still in Oyo State, former Governor Rashidi
Ladoja, was confirmed the governorship
candidate of Accord Party in the forthcoming
gubernatorial election.
In what was a mere affirmation of his
candidature rather than contest, Ladoja polled
1,692 votes to emerge winner in a race where he
had no opponent.
During his acceptance speech, Ladoja said his
emergence marked the beginning of a big
struggle that would end with the 2015 elections.
He said: “This is not the victory itself but the
beginning of the struggle taking us into 2015
election. The beauty of AP is that it is violence-
free. We do not believe in sharing money or
spending money excessively on elections as it is
done in other parties.”
While canvassing for the support of the people of
the state, Ladoja said having been a former
governor, his vision was clear on what the needs
of the people were.
“We have done it before and we will do it again.
The people of this state are waiting for us
because AP is the party to beat in the state. It is
not for nothing that we are the darling of traders,
students, teachers and everybody, this is
because of the good work we have always done,”
he added.