Surulere APC Primary: All aspirants stepped down for me except Desmond Elliot – Odunuga-Bakare

Ahead of the All Progressives Congress, APC, House of Assembly superior predetermination for Surulere Constituency I successful Lagos State, aspirant Barakat Odunuga-Bakare has disclosed that respective contestants successful the contention person withdrawn successful her favour, leaving the incumbent lawmaker, Desmond Elliot, arsenic the lone remaining challenger.

Odunuga-Bakare made the disclosure on Sunday while formally declaring her volition to contention for the party’s summons up of the superior scheduled for Wednesday.

She said the governmental build-up to the workout had been competitive, noting that she initially faced astir 5 to six different aspirants successful the contest, astir of whom person present stepped down and pledged their enactment for her.

“Quite a batch of politicking went connected betwixt the incumbent and me. We had astir 5 oregon six radical who were contesting arsenic well. But the others stepped down and are supporting maine now. They are each here,” she said.

According to her, lone the sitting lawmaker, Hon. Desmond Elliot, has chosen to stay successful the race.

“The lone idiosyncratic who didn’t succumb and insists connected going to the superior is Honourable Desmond Elliot. I privation him each the best, and I privation myself luck too, and I’m praying that on Wednesday, I’m the 1 who emerges arsenic the campaigner for the Lagos State Assembly, Surulere Constituency 1,” she added.

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