KWARA’S POLITICAL UNDERDOG Is Araba writing a different script? asks

ABDULKAREEM RAMMADAN-AKEREBIATA

As the contest over who succeeds Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq intensifies within the All Progressives Congress (APC), one figure appears to be charting a markedly different political course.

While the state’s political conversation has been dominated by reports of resistance from a group of governorship aspirants to the perceived emergence of Speaker Saliu Danladi as the governor’s preferred successor, Engr. Femi Sanni, popularly known as Araba, has conspicuously stayed away from both camps.

In a season of endorsements, counter-endorsements and internal power struggles, Araba has chosen another strategy: selling himself directly to party members and ordinary Kwarans rather than becoming a visible actor in the unfolding succession battle.

That approach has made him something of an underdog.