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Eight out of the ten governorship aspirants in the Peoples Democratic Party, Kwara Chapter, withdrew from the primary election on Monday.

Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed, has called on Nigerians to continue to promote bidding factors that would sincerely sustain the hard fought and won freedom by the foremost nationalists whose labour must never be in vain.

The exercise was disrupted after voting had commenced.

This was announced in a statement issued by the APC’s Acting National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, on Sunday night in Abuja.

The Coalition of Kwara North Groups on Saturday staged a peaceful rally in Ilorin demanding that the district should produce the next governor in 2019.

Mustapha, who is contesting on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, made this known on Saturday in Ilorin while speaking with journalists.

Kwara State has ranked as the state with the lowest newborns and under-five mortality rate in the country, according to a study by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum.

The Kwara State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed, has described as shocking and devastating the untimely death of the member representing Irepodun/Isin/Ekiti/Oke-Ero Federal Constituency of the state, Hon. Funke Adedoyin.

This was contained in a statement by the State Commissioner for Works, Alhaji Aro Yahaya, on Wednesday. 

The Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, on Wednesday flagged off Osi-Obbo-Aiyegunle 11.16km road in Ekiti Local Government Area of the state.

Elders of the All Progressives Congress, Kwara, have called on national leadership of the party to heed the wishes of the members and adopt direct primary for the selection of the governorship candidate.

The forum made its decision known in a statement signed by its Chairman, Alhaji Abdulwahab Ajagusi and the Secretary, Alhaji Salihu Woru-Mohammed in Ilorin.

According to a statement from the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Communication, Dr Muyideen Akorede, on Wednesday, the approved was as a result of separate requests by the State Universal Basic Education Board and the Kwara State Teaching Service Commission.

Mustapha stated this on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ilorin.

Aremu told the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja that the delay in implementing the new minimum wage was deliberate by the Federal Government.

Alhaji Moshood Mustapha, a former Special Adviser on Inter-Parliamentary Affairs, Protocol and Special Duty to President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has declared his interest to run for the 2019 governorship election in Kwara on the platform of the All Progressives Congress.

Ali Bakau, the PSN chairman, Kwara chapter, made this disclosure at a press conference to mark the World Pharmaceutical Day in Ilorin.

Alhaji AbdulRazaq, who is the Mutawali of Ilorin and Tafida of Zaria, said in his message to the wife and children of the deceased that the death of Gbamigboye left him with a “deep sense of personal loss”.

Saraki, who recently defected from the ruling APC to the main opposition PDP, is aspiring to be the country’s next president in the 2019 general elections.

Oba Abdulraheem Adeoti, the traditional ruler of the community and the Olomu of Omu-Aran, Oba Abdulraheem Adeoti, made the appeal in a tribute on the late Bamigboye in Omu-Aran on Sunday.