Senator Obanikoro Announces Postponement of Kwara Gubernatorial Primary Election

Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, the chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primaries in Kwara State, announced on Thursday that the scheduled primary was postponed until Friday because of logistical problems.

"We postponed the election due to logistic issues. We came in late and we needed to be fair to all and to be able to have an effective management of the election, we needed a full day to do that," he said.

Speaking with journalists at the party’s secretariat shortly after a closed‑door meeting with the APC governorship aspirants, Obanikoro said the committee was ready and the election would take place on Friday across the state.

Ten governorship aspirants attended the strategic meeting on Thursday evening, including Abdulfatai Yahaya Seriki, Dr Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa, Prof. Wale Sulaiman, Engr Femi Sanni, Dr Tajudeen Alabi, Aisha Ahmad‑Patigi, Mohammed Bio, Musiliat Yetunde Adebowale, Dr Muideen Salako, and Captain Ahmad Mahmoud.

Obanikoro urged all aspirants to view the victory of any one of them as a collective triumph for the party.

"We should see victory belonging to one as belonging to all. Nobody should take victory of a member of his family as something against his personal interest, if it is true that the interest of the party is supreme," he said.

"It is a family meeting. I am a member of APC from Lagos state and I am here to have a conversation with members of the APC family. On this particular day, we met on the issue of governorship primaries coming up tomorrow and we sat down to have a frank conversation with ourselves that we are all members of one family," Obanikoro declared.