Defection Fails Osun State’s Hon. Wole Oke As APC Stops His 7th-Term House Of Reps Bid
Defecting from the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the country’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) appears to have gone wrong for Hon. Wole Oke as his new party has stopped him from participating in the primaries for his traditional Obokun-Oriade Federal Constituency for the seventh term.
APC’s Screening Committee disqualified Oke when he appeared for his interview on Wednesday in Abuja.
Oke has been representing the people of Obokun-Oriade in Osun State in the House of Representatives for 24 unbroken years.
However, Oke’s seventh-term consecutive attempt at being a Federal Lawmaker was truncated on Wednesday, according to sources.
His disqualification was not unconnected to zoning as some of the screening committee members felt that Oriade, and not Obokun, where Oke hailed from, should produce the party’s next candidate.
Oke, who was elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), defected to the APC last year and was recently named the Director General of the APC campaign team for the August 15, 2026, governorship poll in Osun State.
In the poll, APC candidate Bola Oyebamiji, among other contenders, will be challenging Governor Ademola Adeleke of the Accord Party, who is seeking re-election.
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