Senator Ibrahim Oloriegbe, has lost his bid to return to the National Assembly at the primary election of the All Progressive Congress, APC held in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
Oloriegbe, who represents Kwara Central Senatorial District lost to a philanthropist and Turaki of Ilorin, Malam Saliu Mustapha, who scored 136 votes.
The election result showed that Yahaya Seriki scored 78, while Oloriegbe got 15 votes.
Recall that in 2019, former Senate President, Bukola Saraki lost his bid for reelection into the Senate from Kwara Central on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party to Dr. Oloriegbe of the All Progressives Congress.
Oloriegbe polled a total of 123,808 votes to defeat the Senate President who scored 68,994 votes in the four local governments of Kwara Central Senatorial District.
WITHIN NIGERIA had reported that at least half of the 24 members of the Kwara State House of Assembly have lost their bids to win their various parties’ ticket for re-election in the House.
The lawmakers include the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly, Raphael Adetiba, representing Oke-Ero Constituency; and Felix Awolola, Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Information from Isin State Constituency.