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Bestman Eruba

2027 senate primary

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Bestman ErubaTHE PERSON
Senatorial district
Abia South
State
Abia
Country
Nigeria
Party recorded for this electionYoung Progressives PartyYPP

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Bestman Eruba, popularly known as "Ogele Obingwa", is the Young Progressives Party (YPP) candidate for Abia South Senatorial District in the Senate election of 16 January 2027 (INEC final list, 12 September 2026). INEC lists him as a 38-year-old man whose declared qualifications are the First School Leaving Certificate, the Senior School Certificate, a BSc and an MSc "in view" (in progress). His emergence as the YPP candidate…

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Bestman Eruba, popularly known as "Ogele Obingwa", is the Young Progressives Party (YPP) candidate for Abia South Senatorial District in the Senate election of 16 January 2027 (INEC final list, 12 September 2026). INEC lists him as a 38-year-old man whose declared qualifications are the First School Leaving Certificate, the Senior School Certificate, a BSc and an MSc "in view" (in progress). His emergence as the YPP candidate after the party's senatorial primary was reported on 5 June 2026; the primary's date, votes and opponents were not published. Before his candidacy he was the spokesman of the YPP in Abia State: as the party's Publicity Secretary he signed its May 2023 statement boycotting the Abia local government elections, which it called unbacked by law, and its December 2023 statement denying that the Abia YPP had collapsed into the Labour Party. In May 2025, described as a YPP chieftain, he said the party would offer Governor Alex Otti its 2027 governorship ticket if the Labour Party's crisis persisted.

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2027

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Party primaryReviewed record

2027 Senate primary

Young Progressives Party · Abia South · Abia

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constituency: Abia South Senatorial District · INEC final list of candidates (Senate), published 2026-09-12 — SN 39, p.4; INEC name: BESTMAN ERUBA; age 38; male; qualification (as declared to INEC): FIRST SCHOOL LEAVING CERTIFICATE SENIOR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION BSC, MSC(IN VIEW) · Primary: YPP Abia South senatorial primary; his emergence as candidate was reported…

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constituency: Abia South Senatorial District · INEC final list of candidates (Senate), published 2026-09-12 — SN 39, p.4; INEC name: BESTMAN ERUBA; age 38; male; qualification (as declared to INEC): FIRST SCHOOL LEAVING CERTIFICATE SENIOR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION BSC, MSC(IN VIEW) · Primary: YPP Abia South senatorial primary; his emergence as candidate was reported 2026-06-05 (FaceToFace TV). Primary date, votes and opponents not published.

Reviewed 6 Oct 2026

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Declared to INEC (2027 final list): First School Leaving Certificate, Senior School Certificate Examination, BSc, and an MSc "in view" (in progress); institutions and years not published.

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State Publicity Secretary

Young Progressives Party (YPP), Abia State chapter

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Signed Abia YPP statements as Publicity Secretary on 17 May 2023 (boycott of the ABSIEC local government polls) and in December 2023 (denying an alliance with the Labour Party). Start and end dates not found; by May 2025 the press called him a YPP chieftain.

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Young Progressives Party (YPP)

YPP member by May 2023 (Abia State Publicity Secretary); YPP candidate for Abia South on INEC's final list (12 September 2026); date joined not found

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Reviewed 6 Oct 2026
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