OYINLOLA SET TO REPLACE SECONDUS AS CONSENSUS CANDIDATE FOR PDP CHAIRMANSHIP

Former Governor of Osun State, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, is the consensus candidate for the position of National Chairman of the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the October 30 National Convention, THE WILL can exclusively report.

THEWILL's forecast is in the aftermath of checks amonist various interest groups in the main opposition, who have agreed to sink their differences and support Oymlola's candidature Following ongoing negotiations and the politician's national appeal.

His emergence came on the heels of a meeting of the National Executive Council, NEC, held in Abuja on Thursday, which effectively sealed the fate of the embattled ex-National Chairman, Uche Secondus

THE WILL can report that Oyinbola is also being propped by former President Olusegan Obasanjo.

Clocking 70 in February, Oyinlola is former Governor of Osun State.

He was sworn in on May 29, 2003, and was re-elected in 2007 under the auspices of PDP, until the Court of Appeal nullified his election in November 2010 in favour of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola of the Action Congress (AC).

Oyinlola is a Prince from the royal family of Okuku town, in the Odo Otin Local Government Area of Osun State His father, Oba Moses Oyewole Oyinlola, reigned as the monarch of Okuku, from 1934 to 1960.

After leaving secondary school at the age of 18, Oyintola joined the Nigerian Army in 1969.

He holds double Master's degrees in Defence Studies, and in Strategic Studies.

Appointed the Military Administrator of Lagos State from December 1993 to August 1996 during the General Sani Abacha administration, he later retired as a Brigadier General in 1999.

After several years with PDP, he dedected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) shortly before the 2014 Osun State governorship election.

He was later appointed Chairman of the National Identity Management Corporation (NLMC). He returned to PDP in March 2020.

Credit: The will