The Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Saliu Yakubu Danladi, has emerged as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2027 gubernatorial election in Kwara State.
Danladi secured a landslide victory after polling 94,990 votes to defeat 14 other aspirants in the party’s primary election conducted across the state on Friday May 22, 2026.
Chairman of the APC Governorship Primary Election Committee, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, officially announced the result, declaring the 42-year-old lawmaker as the winner of the keenly contested exercise.
Obanikoro described the primary election as peaceful, transparent, and in line with the democratic principles of the party, commending party members and stakeholders for their orderly conduct throughout the process.
Yakubu-Danladi born in Gwanara, Baruten Local Government Area in Kwara state is a Nigerian engineer and politician who was elected speaker of the 9th Kwara State House of Assembly in 2019. He was again reelected in 2023 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress to represent Ilesha-Gwanara in Baruten state constituency.
9japarrot reports that his emergence has been described by political observers as a major development in Kwara politics considering the agitation of power shift to Kwara North and Danladi’s growing influence within the APC structure and his position as Speaker of the State Assembly.
