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WHO WILL OYO ALAAFIN VOTE TO REPRESENT THEM IN ABUJA IN 2023?

Hon. Akeem Adeniyi Adeyemi (MHR)

Hon. Kamil Akinlabi (Former MHR)

















The two politicians whose pictures are above are two very familiar contestants for the same electoral position of the Green Chamber, of the national assembly. They both are the two main gladiators in the political circuit of Oyo Federal Constituency and incidentally they are both from the same Atiba local government.

Without much ado, Hon (Prince) Akeem Adeniyi Adeyemi and Hon. Kamil Akinlabi both have had a lot of things in common if we look at their pedigree in the past. The at the onset were members of the same party back in the days of the PDP. Whilst Hon. Akeem Adeniyi Adeyemi was the Atiba local government Chairman and Hon Kamil Akinlabi was the honorable representing Oyo Federal Constituency at the green chamber of the national assembly for the second term. 

The duo met during the contest for the ticket of the House of Representatives ticket in 2015 when Hon. Kamil Akinlabi was seeking a third term in the green chamber and Hon. Akeem Adeyemi was seeking his first term. At the end of the day, the ticket for the party was won by Prince Akeem Adeyemi who later went to win the election defeating the incumbent honorable Kamil Akinlabi in the 2015 election under the APC which was the party that the two belonged after there was a decamping to the All Progressive Congress. Though Hon. Kamil Akinlabi left the party and eventually contested under the Labour party where he lost to the young prince Akeem Adeyemi.

Before the 2019 elections, Hon. Kamil Akinlabi had returned to the APC party and he subsequently contested the party ticket an election which he lost to the incumbent which was Prince Akeem Adeyemi. Hon. Kamil Akinlabi eventually left the ruling party for the Action Democratic Party where he contested and he came a distance third in the election. 

Now the die is cast as the two are up again for third term contest at the polls. What will the election look like and what will the results be? Only time will tell who will be winning the 2023 house of representatives election for Oyo Federal Constituency.

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