Exactly two months after the endorsement of Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola as the All Progressives Congress (APC) consensus candidate for the 2027 Ogun State governorship election, the party has announced Kudirat Adegunwa-Balogun as its deputy governorship candidate.
The announcement was made on Sunday by Governor Dapo Abiodun at an emergency APC Strategic Caucus meeting held at the party’s secretariat in Abeokuta.Governor Abiodun stated that the decision was reached after several consultations with party leaders and stakeholders in the state.
He noted that the party considered gender balance and religious tolerance in selecting her from Ososa town in Odogbolu Local Government Area of Ogun East Senatorial District.The governor said, “If the government is coming from the West, we felt that for equity and fairness, the deputy governor should come from the East. So, we sat and looked across the local governments in Ogun East and consulted widely within that constituency.“Yes, we’ve accepted. But until this august body ratifies that, we cannot consider it as something that has been formally accepted by the party and the state. So, we thought we must bring, in the same fashion that we brought the governorship candidate here…
“So today, it gives me great pleasure to announce to us who our deputy governor will be by the grace of God. today, we have among us Mrs Kudirat Abiodun Adegunwa-Balogun and, by the grace of God, Mrs Manobu will be our deputy governor.”In his remarks, the governorship candidate, Solomon Adeola, thanked the governor for the strategy deployed in the selection of
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