The incumbent Speaker of the Kwara State, Yakubu Salihu Danladi, has won the All Progressives Congress governorship ticket.for the 2027 election.
Danladi was declared l winner of the party’s primary in Ilorin, the state capital, on Friday by Musiliu Obanikoro, head of the APC governorship election committee.
Danladi secured 94,990 votes, defeating Yahaya Seriki who polled 41,700 and Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa who got 22,118.
His victory came even though Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq had publicly endorsed Seriki as his preferred successor for the 2027 election.
The exercise was witnessed by APC stakeholders and delegates across the state.
Danladi, who has been Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly since first winning the post in 2019 and was re-elected in 2023, represents the Ilesha/Gwanara constituency in Baruten Local Government Area.
Dele Fashomi, seasoned journalist and communication teacher, is a holder of Master of Arts degree in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan in 1992/93.
Earlier, he had bagged a Bachelor degree from the same university in 1984, after which he proceeded to the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, in 1990, for a postgraduate diploma in Journalism.
He had done many courses in communication, including the EU-BBC Editing Course in 2002.
Mr. Fashomi combines effectively the practice, research and teaching of communication. And to date, he has published two academic works in communication: Issues in Communication Technology and Policy (2010) and Economic and Social Issues in Advertising and PR (2013).
He had his first break in the Nigerian media in Concord Newspapers in 1990 and today, he has over two and half decades experience earned in several newspapers.
He has been part of many start-ups, such as The Republic (1987), The Comet (1999), The Anchor 2001 – 2002; Sun Newspapers (2003); Westerner newsmagazine (2005 – 2010) as Editor; National Life (2011) as Sunday Editor, and Newswatch Newspapers (2012- 2016) as Daily Editor.
Dele Fashomi is now the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Newstide247.com newspaper online, which he started in July 2015. He is also into biography writing, with many books in his trail, some of which he wrote alone and one he co- authored with his mentor, Mr Dare Babarinsa, entitled: Olabiyi Durojaiye – DARE TO BE DiFFERENT. He also guided and collaborated with Pa Olatunji Odusanya in writing his autobiography – AGAINST ALL ODDS. There are many other books in the works under his pen.
