The All Progressives Congress (APC) Screening Committee has disqualified Wole Oke from participating in the party’s primary election for the Obokun-Oriade Federal Constituency.
The committee disqualified Oke when he appeared before it on Wednesday in Abuja.
Oke has been representing the people of Obokun-Oriade in Osun State in the House of Representatives for 24 unbroken years, making him one of the very few National Assembly landlords like Senator Ali Ndume.
However, Oke’s seventh-term consecutive attempt at being a federal lawmaker was truncated on Wednesday, according to sources privy to the matter.
His disqualification was not unconnected to zoning as some of the screening committee members felt that Oriade, and not Obokun, where Oke Hails from, should produce the party’s next candidate for the federal constituency seat.
Oke, who was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), defected to the APC last year and was recently named the Director General of the APC campaign team for the August 15, 2026, governorship poll in Osun State.
In the poll, APC candidate Bola Oyebamiji, among other contenders, will be challenging Governor Ademola Adeleke of the Accord Party, who is seeking re-election.