Ten governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress in Kwara State have urged President Bola Tinubu to resist what they described as attempts to use the state’s traditional institution to secure endorsement for the party’s governorship candidate, Speaker Salihu Danladi.
The aspirants made the appeal in an open letter dated Monday, amid reports that selected first-class traditional rulers from Kwara State were being mobilised to visit the Presidential Villa in Abuja over the 2027 governorship race.
Danladi, Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, had emerged winner of the APC governorship primary held on May 22, 2026, scoring 94,990 votes to defeat 14 other aspirants.
The result was announced by the Chairman of the APC Governorship Primary Election Committee, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, at the Banquet Hall, Ilorin.
However, the aggrieved aspirants said they remained unconvinced by the outcome of the exercise and raised concerns over what they described as
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