By Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA
The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has disqualified distinguished governorship aspirant, Engr. Kayode Ojo, from its forthcoming major election in Ekiti State, in a transfer celebration insiders say reshapes the competition in favour of the incumbent governor, Abiodun Oyebanji.
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The choice, taken at Thursday’s assembly of the APC Nationwide Working Committee, NWC, adopted the report of the screening panel set as much as vet aspirants for the race.
Ojo’s disqualification comes simply weeks after one other aspirant, Olajumoke Olawuni, was dropped from the competition.
With the sphere now drastically narrowed, solely Governor Oyebanji and Omolayo Oluremi have been cleared to take part within the major.
Ojo, a businessman and long-time political participant in Ekiti, has usually been at odds with the APC institution, having beforehand challenged celebration buildings within the state and even contested for governor in 2018 underneath the APC banner.
“That is extra about celebration stability than technical screening points,” one celebration supply confided, suggesting that the nationwide management needed to keep away from a repeat of previous factional crises that had price the APC dearly in Ekiti politics.
In a associated improvement, the NWC additionally dissolved the APC State Govt Committee in Enugu, a dramatic step seen as paving the way in which for the much-anticipated defection of Governor Peter Mba from the Peoples Democratic Occasion PDP to the APC.
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