2023 Ogun State Gubernatorial Election
The 2023 Ogun State gubernatorial election took place on 18 March 2023, to elect the Governor of Ogun State, concurrent with 2023 Ogun State House of Assembly election, elections to the Ogun State House of Assembly as well as twenty-seven other 2023 Nigerian gubernatorial elections, gubernatorial elections and 2023 Nigerian state legislative elections, elections to all other state houses of assembly. The election — which was postponed from its original 11 March date — was held three weeks after the 2023 Nigerian presidential election, presidential election and 2023 Nigerian elections#National Assembly elections, National Assembly elections. Incumbent All Progressives Congress, APC Governor Dapo Abiodun won election to a second term by a 2.2% margin of victory over PDP nominee Oladipupo Olatunde Adebutu, a former House of Representatives (Nigeria), House of Representatives member. The primaries, scheduled for between 4 April and 9 June 2022, resulted in Abiodun being renominat ...
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Dapo Abiodun
Adedapo Oluseun Abiodun CON (; born 29 May 1960) is a Nigerian businessman and politician, who has served as Governor of Ogun State since May 2019. Currently a member of the All Progressive Congress, Abiodun first entered politics during the aborted Abacha transition in 1998 and remained active in politics until being elected governor in 2019. Born in Iperu Remo in 1960, Abiodun eventually became an accountant for several years before entering business in the 1990s. Alongside a business career, Abiodun entered electoral politics and was the board chairman of the Corporate Affairs Commission. Prior to his assumption of political office in 2019, he was the managing director of Heyden Petroleum and the founder of First Power Limited. Abiodun was 2019 Ogun State gubernatorial election, elected to his first term as governor by a small margin then was 2023 Ogun State gubernatorial election, re-elected by a similarly slight margin in 2023. Early life Abiodun was born on 29 May 1960 in ...
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