6 Reps, 24 Assembly members get return tickets
Former Chairman of the Osun State Universal Basic Education, Ibukun Fadipe has been endorsed as the preferred candidate of the Accord for Osun East Senatorial District.
Governor Ademola Adeleke and the leadership of the Accord ratified the endorsement at a meeting held at the Government House in Osogbo on Monday.
Former Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party and Commissioner for Rural Affairs, Gani Olaoluwa was also preferred to former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Lasun Yusuff and Aremo Kunle Alao for the Osun Central ticket.
Sources at the meeting told InsightMedia that the Osun Central nomination was done via a shadow elections by some leaders of the party present and Olaoluwa was got majority to defeat Yusuff.
Sources said Senator Lere Oyewumi, all six incumbent House of Representatives members and House of Assembly members have been given nod to fly the party flags in their respective constituencies, putting ends to speculations and internal politicking within the party.
For Ijesa North, Ijesa South and Ife Federal Constituencies, Pelumi Olajengbesi, Popoola Ibrahim Alaba and Tosin Eluwole.
The Reps members who got automatic tickets are Mudasiru Lukman (Iwo), Bamidele Salam (Ede), Clement Olohunwa (Ila), Lanre Oladebo (Irewole), Adebayo Monrufu (Osogbo) and Soji Adetunji (IBO).
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The preferred aspirants will proceed to obtain nomination forms from the party this week as primaries will hold next week.
The primaries are expected to be consensus mode.