The Peoples Democratic Party’s Senatorial primary elections held on Monday have produced Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, Rafiu Adebayo Ibrahim and Prince Adamu Bawa to fly the flags of the party at Kwara Central, South and North Senatorial district seats, respectively, in the 2023 general elections.
Both Abdullahi and Ibrahim emerged through consensus arrangement and affirmation by the party delegates at the primaries conducted by officials from the party’s headquarters and supervised by officials from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Bawa on the other hand slugged it out with Aisha Ahman-Pategi, and defeated her by 133 votes to her 28 votes.
Prince Bawa, a former commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs under the Abdulfatah Ahmed administration is from the Batonu axis while Hajia Aisha Ahman-Pategi is from the Nupe axis.
Incidentally, Ahman-Pategi was also until recently a commissioner in the same ministry under the All Progressive Party's government of Governor Abdulrazaq Abdulrahman.
Abdullahi, the Kwara Central senatorial candidate is the former Minister of Sports and Kwara State Commissioner for Education.
He also served as Special Assistant and Special Adviser to former Governor Bukola Saraki on strategy and national spokesman of the PDP.
Abdullahi, after his emergence thanked the PDP stakeholders and the delegates for confirming him as the Kwara Central candidate, assuring the people of his constituency of quality representation in the Senate.
He also thanked journalists for their support, saying “I won’t take your support and that of the PDP’s stakeholders for granted”
The PDP’s flagbearer for Kwara South senatorial district, Rafiu Ibrahim was a former senator
He emerged through affirmation at the primary held in Omu-Aran in Irepodun Local Government Area of the state.
After their affirmation, the chairman of PDP in Kwara South, Comrade Bisi Fakayode, formally presented Ibrahim to the delegates as the senatorial district’s candidate.
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