..Hakeem Lawal Clinches SDP ticket
Alh Abdullahi Shuaib Yaman has won the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP primary election in Kwara State.
In the sorting and counting of votes which was done in the full glare of the cameras, Journalists, security agents and officials of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, Yaman scored 518 votes to beat Hon Ahman Patigi and Prof. Yisa Gana who poll 31 votes and 14 votes respectively.
In related developments, Hakeem Lawal, son of the late Governor of Kwara State, Mohammed Alabi Lawal has won the governorship ticket of the Social Democratic Party, SDP
Recall Hakeem Lawal recently defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress to the SDP following irreconcilable differences in the party.
Hakeem defeated five other contestants with 33 votes to emerge the candidate of the party at the primary election held on Wednesday in Ilorin.
The result of the primary election showed that the former VC University of Ilorin and chairman of the Federal Character Commission, Professor Oba Shuaib Abdulraheem, scored 16 votes, Khaleel Bolaji got zero votes, Kale Belgore, zero votes, while Engr Sunday Babalola and Tajudeen Audu scored two and 10 votes respectively.
