Date: 2018-08-24

The immediate past National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, has joined the governorship race in Kwara State.

He will run under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and may like get the ticket considering his closeness to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, the leader of the party in the state.

Abdullahi will seek to succeed incumbent two-term Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed.

Abdullahi dumped the APC on Wednesday August 1, 2018.

Two days later, he announced that he had dropped President Muhammadu Buhari's board appointment.

The former Minister was recently appointed spokesman of the coalition seeking to defeat his former party and President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.

Abdullahi is now the head of Media and Publicity committee of the newly formed Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP).

The committee has Kazeem Afegbua and Kola Ologbondiyan, spokesman of the PDP as members.

Abdullahi's committee was among the several others inaugurated on August 6 in Abuja by the steering committee of CUPP.