Ogun PDP primaries: Bello floors Reps Deputy Minority Whip, Adekoya

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries held in Ogun State to pick candidates for House of Representatives and House of Assembly elections, on Monday, witnessed a big upset as the party’s only member from the state in the lower chamber of the National Assembly, Hon. Adesegun Adekoya, lost his re-election bid for a third term.

Adekoya, who is the PDP Deputy Minority Whip in the House of Reps, was defeated in the contest for the party’s ticket for Ijebu North/Ijebu East/Ogun Waterside Federal Constituency.

Another aspirant, Hon. Kehinde Bello, won the party’s ticket in a keenly contested primary election held at Muslim Hall, Ijebu Imushin in Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State.

Bello, according to the results announced and signed by the Returning Officer, Ashiru Tunde, polled 58 votes.

There were five contestants in the primary election for the Ijebu North/Ijebu East/Ogun Waterside Federal Constituency ticket.

In the official results, Tele Ogunjobi polled 38 votes, Sunday Adegbesan got 02 votes, Adesegun Adekoya had 01 vote, while Adeyemi Duduyemi did not record any vote.

The primary election was earlier slated for Sunday but due to logistics challenges, including late arrival of electoral materials and officials, the exercise could not hold and was rescheduled to Monday.

Hon. Adekoya, who has been in the House of Representatives since 2015, was absent at the venue of the party’s primary election.

Meanwhile, the senatorial primaries of the main opposition party were ongoing as of the time of filing this report.

The Star