2023: Baba Ijebu’s Son, Ladi Adebutu, Emerges Factional PDP Guber Candidate in Ogun
By Nafisat Bello
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) factional electoral committee, led by Professor Akase Sorkaa, has announced Hon. Ladi Adebutu as the elected candidate for the 2023 governorship election in Ogun State.
The announcement was made at about 11pm on Wednesday, at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The committee stated that Adebutu polled 714 votes to defeat Jimi Lawal, Segun Sowunmi and Abodunrin Abimbola, who recorded no votes.
In the presence of the officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Sorkaa committee declared that, “Hon. Ladi Adebutu, having scored the highest number of votes, is hereby declared the winner of the Ogun 2023 governorship primary and the candidate of the PDP for the Ogun 2023 gubernatorial election.”
At the commencement of the election, loyalists of Adebutu and Lawal went up in arms with one another over the delegates’ lists.
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Followers of Lawal had cried that the delegates list brought by the PDP electoral committee from Abuja had been doctored, alleging that it was not the same as the one certified by INEC.
But, with the insistence of the PDP Chairman in Ogun State, Sikirulahi Ogundele, the election was held using the delegates list from the party’s national headquarters.
It appeared this did not go down well with Lawal and his supporters as they left the auditorium unannounced, refusing to participate in the primary election.
Addressing newsmen after the election, Adebutu said the victory was pursued for almost a decade and asked the disgruntled aspirants to join hands with him to complete the job at the main elections.
Ladi Adebutu, a former House of Representatives member who represented Remo federal constituency in the botched 3rd republic, is the son of famous billionaire and owner of Premier Lotto (Baba Ijebu), Sir Kessingnton Adebutu.
Politics Digest recalls that Segun Showunmi, a former spokesman to the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCO), had earlier on Wednesday held a factional primary election that returned him as the Ogun PDP governorship candidate.
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