By-election: Parties pick candidates in Edo, Oyo, Zamfara.

By-election: Parties pick candidates in Edo, Oyo, Zamfara.

Reported by: Osagie Otabor, Akure.

The major political parties have elected their candidates for the by-election in Edo, Oyo, and Zamfara states on August 16.

In Edo State, the Labour Party (LP) elected Paul Okojie as its candidate to fill the vacant Edo Central Senatorial District seat in the National Assembly.

Okojie was affirmed as the party’s candidate in a voice vote by the party’s delegates.

The seat was previously occupied by Governor Monday Okpebholo.

Also in Edo State, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has elected a former Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Joe Okojie, as its candidate for the by-election.

A statement yesterday in Benin, the state capital, by the party’s Caretaker Committee’s Publicity Secretary, Mr. Chris Nehikhare, announced Okojie’s election.

The PDP has picked Mr. Johnny Ikponmwosa Aikpitanyin as its candidate for Ovia Federal Constituency, while the All Progressives Congress (APC) elected Omosede Igbinedion as its candidate for the constituency.

In Zamfara State, the APC elected Kamilu Sa’idu as its candidate for Kaura Namoda South State Assembly Constituency.

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A statement yesterday in Gusau, the state capital, by the State APC Publicity Secretary, Yusuf Idris, said Sa’idu was unanimously elected as other contestants stepped down for him. “The aspirants were Bashir Muhammad, Anas S-Fada and Ashiru Hamisu.

“The candidate was affirmed by all the 30 party delegates from the six wards of Kaura Namoda South Constituency.

“The wards were: Kagara, Dan-Isa, Sakajiki, Kurya, Kyambarawa and Banga affirmed Sa’idu’s election,” Idris added.

In Oyo State, aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ibadan North have rejected the conduct of the party’s primaries.

They claimed that the primary was conducted at a venue without a prior official congress.

In a communique addressed to the APC National Secretariat in Abuja and signed by six of the 10 aspirants yesterday in Ibadan, the aspirants said the primary was inconclusive.

The communique was signed by Olaleye Segun (Ward 11), Lapade Idris (Ward 5), Farouk Arisekola (Ward 5), Adekunle Oladeji (Ward 10), Saheed Aderounmu (Ward , and khalil Mustapha (Ward 5). It was copied to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the APC National Executives, the party’s National Working Committee (NWC), and the Delegates Congress Committee.

Also copied were the State APC Chairman, Alhaji Olayide Abas, Oyo APC Executives, State Working Committee, INEC, party members and all stakeholders in Ibadan North Federal Constituency.