Former Lagos State Honourable Commissioner for Works and Housing, and PDP Southwest Zonal Secretary, Rahman Akanni Owokoniran has stopped pushing from back, now leads from front.
The former member of Lagos State House of Assembly representing Surulere Constituency, was the Co- founder of Bola Ahmed Tinubu Independent Campaign Group 2002, Where he served as Director General before partying ways over reconcilable differences over 14 years ago.
He was appointed As Director General of the 2015 PDP Governorship Candidate, Jimi Agbaje which Election results reportedly demstified the APC National leader, Bola Tinubu when PDP won 8 Lagos State House of Assembly and 6 House of Representatives seats respectively.
Thereafter the emergence of the PDP Deputy State Chairman; Welly Hassan who had attempted Kosofe LGA Chairman positions without any major success over the decades later rise to the state level despite he is umatchable to his Predecessor, Ola Apena was linked to Owokoniran.
He also played significant role in Lagos and Southwest 2019 campaign programmes of the PDP Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar and other Committees of the party before he emerged as PDP Southwest Zonal Secretary few months ago.
RAO, who is the major strategist and financial of PDP in Kosofe Federal Constituency and other parts of Lagos State has been the type of Politicians that doesn’t make Fish Market Noise. However, he has since stops pushing from the back, and now leads from front since Lagos East senatorial District Bye-election in 2020.
He was the brain behind the emergence of PDP Kosofe Constituency 2 House of Assembly candidate, Alebiosu Sikirulahi Ademola against Dele Segun Aroyewun (DSA), who was backed By Welly Hassan.
Welly reportedly dissapointed RAO during the 2019 PDP National Convention.
Kosofe Post gathers Rather for Welly to reciprocate RAO gestures for supporting his leadership in Kosofe While the former Deputy State Chairman, Ola Apena almost succeeded in sending him to Political Oblivion during Markafi and Sherrif long legal battles. The two times emergence of Welly wife, Sherifat Hassan as Kosofe Federal Constituency House of Representatives Candidate, He chose to be clever by half.
According to Topflight source, when the National delegate for Kosofe was to be nominated while Hassan’s was Acting as PDP Lagos State Chairman he gave it to Ola Apena despite been torn in his flesh to allegedly betrayed Owokoniran.
Immediate, Ola Apena cash out from the PDP National Convention in 2019, he dumped the Party for All Progressives Congress until his unceremonious return to PDP few Months ago to align with his bossom and club member, Welly Hassan against Owokoniran.
Lagos Senatorial District and Kosofe Constituency 2 Bye-elections in December 2020, 2021 PDP Ward and LGA Congresses has now revealed that the Southwest PDP General Secretary, Owokoniran have stopped pushing from the back, and now leads from the front as Political General.