Osun News
Four Aspirants Pull Out Of Osun PDP Guber Primary
…..Few hours to the Osun State People Democratic Party, PDP, governorship primary election, no few than four aspirants have pulled out from the race, while PDP governorship candidate in the state in 2018, Senator Ademola Adeleke and Oyedotun Babayemi will jostling for the party ticket tomorrow.
As against the earlier report in circulation that Prince Dotun Babayemi had announced his withdrawal from the race, Babayemi and Ademola Adeleke are currently on the field to to get the guber ticket on Tuesday, 8th March, 2022.
,,,,,It would be recalled that six aspirants were cleared by the five-member
Screening Committee of the party to contest the primaries.
,,,,Among the aspirants that announced their withdrawal ahead of the party’s primaries are; Dr. Akin Ogunbiyi,
Ademola Adeleke’s nephew, Bamidele Adeleke; a former Secretary to the Osun State Government, Fatai Akinbade; and and Omirin Emmanuel Olusanya.
,,,,,Earlier, Akin Ogunbiyi announced his withdrawal at his Campaign Office in Osogbo, Osun State Capital on Monday Ogunbiyi, said he withdrew from the contest because of the bias of the PDP national chairman, Senator Iyorcha Ayu.
He said the National party Chairman, Senator Ayu has agreed to work with Ademola Adeleke, adding that he has been told not to waste his money for the primaries.
…According to Ogunbiyi, “The blood of anybody is not worth to be shed for my ambition and that is why I have to withdraw from the race.”
…Meanwhile, the only aspirant from the eastern part of Osun state, Hon Emmanuel Sanya Omirin declared his support for Sen. Ademola Adeleke in the tomorrow primaries.
,,,However, the former Secretary to the Osun State Government, Fatai Akinbade thrown weight behind Oyedotun Babayemi for the primaries.
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