Aspirants

IT’s another season of gubernatorial aspirations in Edo State and the league of aspirants is growing by the day, with each of the aspirants moving on with their own ‘Roman mob’.

Four aspirants led by Egbe Omorodion had earlier this week called for the reduction of the price but the party stated that the governorship was for serious aspirants.

The Youth Leader of the state branch of the New Nigeria People’s Party, Ayinla Luqman, said that the fees charged to the aspirants by KWASIEC were to screen out the aspirants from the local government elections in the state.

The EAMCET was to be held originally from July 6 to 8 for engineering aspirants and on July 8 and 9 for the agriculture stream aspirants.

He revealed that NDC National Executive Committee would put some stringent measures to vet all nominations to whittle down the number of aspirants, although the Party has not decided on the number of aspirants to limit to.

One of the female aspirants for Bua Ward, Cortesher Mbewe, asked people of goodwill to support women aspirants with resources for conducting campaigns.

Reports also revealed that so many aspirants were short-changed as money exchanged hands coupled with hijack of sensitive materials by hoodlums who worked for some party leaders and desperate aspirants.

Asiru, is one of the aspirants on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, who have indicated interest in succeeding Governor Yahaya Bello in the election scheduled for later this year.

As it stands now, about nine or more aspirants have shown interest to lead the party to break the eight-year invincibility power cycle.

A Special Delegates Congress has commenced at 17 polling stations nationwide where over 900 party stalwarts will vote to cut down the number of aspiring presidential aspirants for the governing party.

As Politico noted last year, three political aspirants took to the airwaves — at the time, during their primary campaigns — including a couple ads geared toward a fanatical, right-wing base.

A total of 22 aspirants lost their lives last year, according to him.

Certainly not from their personal pockets or from party supporters and sympathisers who themselves often ‘wash or prepare their hands waiting to chop’ (as they normally say) from the presidential aspirants during elections.

Comparing himself with other aspirants, the former Trade and Industry Minister said he remained well-marketed, charismatic and influential, with a proven track record in the political space.

Computer science courses continue to draw the most engineering aspirants in the state, with more than 40,000 out of 1.18 lakh one-third of the students admitted to undergraduate engineering programmes opting for them.

Dr Bawumia, together with nine other aspirants, will be contesting for the party’s primaries to choose who will lead the party as flagbearer going into the 2024 presidential elections.

Dr. Duffuor, one of the three presidential aspirants on Tuesday filed an injunction in court restraining the party from going ahead with the election.

Due to so many aspirants, DPP is divided.

Ebiki said the majority of APC members and most people in Bayelsa desire Lyon to fly the flag of the party but expressed worries that if not properly conducted the primary election could be hijacked by unpopular desperate aspirants.

For some indecipherable reason, in recent times most, though not all, such aspirants for the presidency or vice presidency seem to be Republicans.