{"id":438773,"date":"2022-03-08T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=438773"},"modified":"2022-03-08T17:41:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:41:24","slug":"osun-pdp-oyinlola-dismisses-faction-insists-parallel-primary-is-valid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=438773","title":{"rendered":"Osun PDP: Oyinlola dismisses faction, insists parallel primary is valid"},"content":{"rendered":"

A faction of the People\u2019s Democratic Party PDP in Osun State is holding a parallel primary to select a candidate in the April 16 governorship election in the State at WOCDIF Centre, Ring Road, Osogbo.<\/p>\n

On Monday, a few hours to the primary, four aspirants contesting on the platform of PDP withdrew from the primary leaving Senator Ademola Adeleke and Dotun Babayemi.<\/p>\n

The 2018 governorship candidate of the party, Senator Adeleke had pitched his tent with the acting chairman of the party in the state while other aspirants who withdrew aligned with former chairman Soji Adagunodo.<\/p>\n

All aspirants who withdrew from the primary of the party including the nephew of Senator Ademola Adeleke \u2013 Deji Adeleke declared support for Babayemi.<\/p>\n

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Dele Adeleke casting vote for cousin\u2019s opponent, Dotun Babayemi at parallel primary <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola has described the primary of the going on at Osogbo Township Stadium as invalid.<\/p>\n

Oyinlola dismissed the ongoing exercise at the stadium saying it is not valid.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is the person who will make Osun better. He is Dotun Babayemi.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThose of us here are the ones following the law and order,\u201d<\/p>\n

However, at the Osogbo Township Stadium, the National Working Committee is holding another primary election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A faction of the People\u2019s Democratic Party PDP in Osun State is holding a parallel primary to select a candidate in the April 16 governorship election in the State at WOCDIF Centre, Ring Road, Osogbo. On Monday, a few hours to the primary, four aspirants contesting on the platform of PDP withdrew from the primary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":438774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1164,58],"class_list":["post-438773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-osun","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/438774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}