“With a deep sense of responsibility, I, Otunba Olabisi Kolawole, thank Ekiti people, PDP members and supporters who believed in us and in our cause to raise the banner of Ekiti State.
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The Chief Returning Officer of the election, Kayode Adebowale, declared the APC and its candidate winners of the election
It was predicted as a three-horse race: All Progressives Congress, Peoples Democratic Party and Social Democratic Party
The APC garnered 154 while the SDP and PDP candidates scored three and four votes respectively.
Oyebanji made the assertions on Saturday after casting his vote, along with his wife, Olayemi, at the Ward 6, Unit 3, Okelele in Ikogosi-Ekiti.
This was contained in a statement by Dr Catherine Oby-Christopher, Assistant Director on Information of the FHC.
The state’s APC Publicity Secretary, Segun Dipe, urged Nigerians particularly Ekiti people and party members “to disregard the rumour and discountenance it as the forlorn wish of some desperate politicians in the state, which cannot come to pass”.
Asiwaju Tinubu, who represented President Muhammadu Buhari, Governor Sanwo-Olu and other APC governors and leaders appealed to the people of Ekiti State to elect Biodun Oyebanji as the next governor of Ekiti.
Oyebanji is the Governorship candidate of the ruling APC in Ekiti State governorship election.
He made this known in fresh warnings he released on the Ekiti State governorship poll scheduled for June 18, 2022.
APC National Chairman Senator Abdullahi Adamu disclosed this while speaking to State House Correspondents after presenting the party’s candidate for the Ekiti governorship election, Biodun Oyebanji, to President Muhammadu Buhari.
This is contained in a communiqué issued by the drafting committee Chairman, Segun Dipe, and made available to newsmen on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti.
Sen. Opeyemi Bamidele and Rep. Femi Bamisile had opted out of the suit instituted against the party by former aspirants.
Addressing their campaign team across the 16 local government areas, Bamidele and Bamisile rejected the outcome of the primary
This was the position of one of the aspirants and eventual winner of the primaries, Biodun Oyebanji, who spoke on Thursday.
The winner declared by the Chairman of the Primary Election Committee, Governor Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State.
APC members in their hundreds vowed to resist any attempt to impose Biodun Oyebanji on them by the state government
Others, who withdrew, according to a statement on Thursday, are a former governorship aspirant, Kayode Ojo; Demola Popoola; Femi Bamisile; former House of Representatives member, Bamidele Faparusi; National Assembly member, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele; and Afolabi Oluwasola.
The resignation which was conveyed in a letter to the Governor, dated December 3, 2021, takes effect from Tuesday, December 7th.
This was contained in a letter exclusively obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Ado-Ekiti.