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By Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA
The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has disqualified salient governorship aspirant, Engr. Kayode Ojo, from its forthcoming superior predetermination successful Ekiti State, successful a determination enactment insiders accidental reshapes the contention successful favour of the incumbent governor, Abiodun Oyebanji.
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The decision, taken astatine Thursday’s gathering of the APC National Working Committee, NWC, followed the study of the screening sheet acceptable up to vet aspirants for the race.
Ojo’s disqualification comes conscionable weeks aft different aspirant, Olajumoke Olawuni, was dropped from the contest.
With the tract present drastically narrowed, lone Governor Oyebanji and Omolayo Oluremi person been cleared to enactment successful the primary.
Ojo, a businessman and long-time governmental subordinate successful Ekiti, has often been astatine likelihood with the APC establishment, having antecedently challenged enactment structures successful the authorities and adjacent contested for politician successful 2018 nether the APC banner.
“This is much astir enactment stableness than method screening issues,” 1 enactment root confided, suggesting that the nationalist enactment wanted to debar a repetition of past factional crises that had outgo the APC dearly successful Ekiti politics.
In a related development, the NWC besides dissolved the APC State Executive Committee successful Enugu, a melodramatic measurement seen arsenic paving the mode for the much-anticipated defection of Governor Peter Mba from the Peoples Democratic Party PDP to the APC.
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