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Senator Bukola Saraki’s crumbling political edifice in Kwara State again lost one of its remaining pillars Hon. Wahab Issa to the APC, in a dramatic step that further empties the main opposition party ahead of the crucial elections on Saturday.
Wahab Issa, one of the strongest allies of the fabled Saraki dynasty, was the PDP candidate for the Ilorin East/South House of Representatives election on February 25. He lost to the APC’s Yinka Aluko.
Rumour mills had gone wild on Wahab’s defection bid, even as dozens of Sarakites jumped the ship after the crushing defeat meted to it by the APC in the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections which the latter won 100%.
Wahab Issa finally met with Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Wednesday to seal his defection to the governing APC, raising questions about the future of a dynasty that has failed to regain traction since its first-ever defeat in 2019.
The last few days have seen hundreds of opposition elements defecting to the ruling APC, all of them hinging their decision on the “excellent performance” of Governor AbdulRazaq who is standing for re-election in the Saturday election.
Some of the leading defectors included Senator Suleiman Makanjuola Ajadi of ADC; former commissioner for Sports Kale Ayo; former Commissioner Aisha Ahman Patigi; PDP’s Haruna Likpata; former council chairman and senior legislative aide to Saraki Wasiu Bamidele; and Saraki’s cousin Ope Saraki; among several others.
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