2027: Stakeholders back Akande as Oyo PDP consensus guber candidate

Indications person emerged that cardinal stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, successful Oyo State person backed Dr. Debo Akande for the party’s governorship summons successful the 2027 wide elections.

There were earlier reports that 2 different governorship aspirants, Bimbo Adekanmbi and Shared Akinade Fijabi, got the backing of enactment leaders and different stakeholders during a high-level consultative gathering successful Ibadan.

However, sources acquainted with the closed-door gathering dismissed reports that Adekanmbi and Fijabi were the 2 aspirants considered during the deliberations, describing specified narratives arsenic misleading and inconsistent with what transpired astatine the parley.

“The communicative that Fijabi and Adekanmbi were the last 2 is simply a fabrication. It was designed to launder a determination made extracurricular the room,” a enactment root said on Tuesday.

According to insiders, Akande consistently ranked up of different aspirants passim the consultation process.

In the archetypal interior caucus session, helium reportedly secured 3 votes connected the archetypal time earlier expanding his tally to 4 votes connected the 2nd day. When the consultation was expanded to see 21 stakeholders, Akande was said...