
Professor Abdulmumeen Olayinka Ajia, the governorship candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) in Kwara State, has flagged off his campaign ahead of Nigeria's 2027 general elections. According to Tribune Online, Ajia addressed loyalists and party supporters at Oja Oba in Ilorin on Wednesday. Ajia, a US-based university lecturer in Business Administration, outlined his campaign programme to those in attendance as he begins his bid for the Kwara governorship seat in the forthcoming polls.
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