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2019: Five PDP defectors get return tickets, two lose out

Published by The Nation on Wed, 14 Nov 2018


With the release of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, list of candidates for the various elective positions in 2019, it is confirmed that two out of the seven Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lawmakers at the Lagos State House of Assembly who defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, could not secure return ticket to the Assembly for 2019.Also three out of the 19 first term lawmakers in the 8th Assembly lost their bid to come back for a second term in 2019 having lost out in the party primaries.The two PDP defectors who could not make it are: the former Minority Leader, Mr. Akeem Bello representing Amuwo Odofin 2 constituency and Mr.Adedayo Famakinwa representing Ajeromi/Ifelodun 1 constituency.The three first termers who also lost out at the primaries are: Mr. Sola Giwa representing Lagos Mainland 2 constituency, Bello and Famakinwa.Read Also:PDP blasts senator for poor project executionAlthough reliable sources at the Assembly said that all the defectors were promised automatic return ticket the partys decision to subject all the aspirants to direct primaries seem to have worked against that promise for Bello and Famakinwa who could not pull their weight at the primaries.Although Bellos name was in the first list released by INEC, his name is however not in the latest list released by the electoral body Friday last week.It would be recalled that the 8th Lagos Assembly started with eight opposition lawmakers from PDP and seven of them later defected to the ruling APC and only five out the seven were able to secure return ticket to the Assembly that is if they win the election in 2019.
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