Nigeria, May 26 -- A former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State, Iyiola Oyedepo, has been nominated as the Kwara South senatorial candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) for the 2027 general elections.

The opposition party conducted its National Assembly primaries in the state on Saturday.

Mr Oyedepo, a lawyer, former commissioner and one-time chief whip of the Kwara State House of Assembly, was a leader of the "Otooge" (enough is enough) movement that mobilised public support against the then PDP-led state government during the 2019 general elections.

However, he fell out with the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq that followed and defected to the ADC...