2027: Kwara APC Elders Caucus Reject Danladi, Warn Party Risks Electoral Defeat

Fresh cracks have emerged within the Kwara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) following the open rejection of the Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Salihu Danladi, as the party’s governorship candidate for the 2027 election by the party’s Elders Caucus.
The development has exposed growing internal tensions within the ruling party as stakeholders openly challenged what they described as an attempt to impose a candidate without broad consultation across the state.
Addressing journalists in Ilorin on Monday, leaders of the caucus, regarded as the apex advisory body established to counsel the governor and provide strategic direction for the pa...