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The result was keep. Yunshui  ^雲 _水 11:51, 18 June 2018 (UTC) reply

Mike Omotosho

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Leader of a local party with no representation in senate and only one seat (not his) in the assembly. Maybe a merge? Although I am for deletion. Previuos discussion, two years ago, also favoured delete. 2Joules ( talk) 07:06, 11 June 2018 (UTC) reply

• Keep Satifies WP:POLITICIAN and WP:GNG. There's no such thing as a "Local political party", National political party can be substituted for that instead. Subject has significant press coverage, in depth coverage and otherwise. It was previously deleted because the article was overly promotional in 2015. Article needs minor cleanup Edidiong ( talk) 12:06, 11 June 2018 (UTC) reply

@ User:Mredidiongekong, coverage is marginal at best. Nothing significant enough for a wiki entry. Furthermore this could be a promotional hoax according to this news report 2Joules ( talk) 12:12, 11 June 2018 (UTC) reply

@ 2Joules Yes, Omotosho is not the Chairman of Labour Party (Nigeria), but he is a notable politician. According to INEC Nigeria Abdukadir Abdulsalam is the Chairman of the Labour Party, that fact is not disputed. If you check, WP:NPOL Criterion 3, it says "Just being an elected local official, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability, although such people can still be notable if they meet the primary notability criterion of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article", currently the article needs to be rewritten and cleaned up. Edidiong ( talk) 12:47, 11 June 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. MT Train ^Talk 13:56, 11 June 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Nigeria-related deletion discussions. MT Train ^Talk 13:56, 11 June 2018 (UTC) reply

• Keep. This is actually quite a bit more complicated than it might appear if you read only the link that 2Joules provided above — if you follow all of the news about this instead of cherrypicking just one story, there's actually a dispute between the party, which recognizes Omotosho as its chairman, and the electoral commission, which is refusing to do so and accusing him of "impersonating" Abdukadir Abdulsalam, even though Abdulsalam was removed from the chairmanship on fraud charges last year and nobody in the party is confused by any purported impersonation on Omotosho's part. So there is or was a dispute between the party and INEC about who is or isn't the rightful chairman of the party, and that's very clearly a notable political story regardless of Omotosho's status. That said, obviously the article needs to do a better job of covering the dispute than it does right now. Bearcat ( talk) 17:28, 11 June 2018 (UTC) reply

@ Bearcat yes there was a dispute but it has been resolved and according to the Independent National Electoral Commission, Abdukadir Abdulsalam is the right chairman. Edidiong ( talk) 18:53, 11 June 2018 (UTC) reply

Doesn't matter. The dispute is notable in and of itself regardless of how it resolved. If an event article can be written about the dispute itself, then I'd be comfortable switching my vote to "redirect to that article" — but the dispute itself is notable enough to Nigerian politics, regardless of how it did or didn't resolve, that we should rightly maintain some form of content about it. Bearcat ( talk) 19:09, 11 June 2018 (UTC) reply

• Keep. Omotosho is actually a notable Politician in Nigeria and political disputes are quite normal in Nigeria especially as to party Chairmanship or not. Labour Party has had two elected Governors in the last 16 years of Nigeria's Democracy. The said man contested the General elections in Kwara state, a North Central state in Nigeria. Ladispeaks ( talk) 18:52, 11 June 2018 (UTC) reply

Contesting a general election, but not winning it, is not a notability criterion for a politician. Notability derives from holding office, not just from being a candidate for it. Bearcat ( talk) 19:12, 11 June 2018 (UTC) reply

• Comment the article needs massive cleanup if kept. I don't quite understand the controversy regarding his position as head of the Labour Party of Nigeria; but note it's not a position that would meet any SNG so the resolution isn't relevant to notability. Whether this meets GNG is unclear to me. power~enwiki ( π, ν) 19:28, 12 June 2018 (UTC) reply

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