Women Arise for Change Initiative is one of the 54 election observation groups accredited by the Independent National Electoral Commission to observe the Ekiti election on Saturday.
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The party stated its position in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Malam Bolaji Abudullahi, in Abuja on Thursday.
In a statement jointly signed by the Coordinator of NIM, Ekiti State Chapter, Moses Jolayemi, and the National Secretary, Prof. Anthony Kila, the intervention movement said it zeroed in on Fayemi after due diligence had been carried out on the leading candidates for the coveted position of the governor of Ekiti State.
The body said this in a statement made available to The Eagle Online in the early hours of Friday.
From Fayose’s camp, it seems that the APC will not be content to win.
From the heavy presence of Okada Riders, youth and women leaders who jam-packed the premises of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital that Friday night with many of them pulling their shirts to donate blood while I was in surgery to the powerful presence of delegation of the Ewi of Ado Ekiti and Oluyin of Iyin Ekiti by Saturday morning, followed by the personal visit of our referred Aare Afe Babalola, who was accompanied by his wife and principal functionaries of Afe Babalola University.
Officers and men of the Nigeria Police on Thursday vacated the gates to Ekiti State Government House they had occupied for two days, concerning the Ekiti Poll.
The Peoples Democratic Party has advised the people of Ekiti to vote for its gubernatorial candidate, Prof. Kolapo Olusola-Eleka, and protect votes in the election scheduled for Saturday.
The PDP Senators, led by the Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, while addressing newsmen, condemned the alleged attack on Fayose.
The Co-Chairman of the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria made this admonition Wednesday evening at his Ile-Oodua palace, Ile-Ife while hosting the British High-Commissioner to Nigeria, Paul Arkwright.
Addressing a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday, National Chairman of PDP Uche Secondus, described the incident as “a complete attack on democratic order and direct assault on Ekiti State and her people’’.
The DIG gave the assurance at a news conference on Wednesday in Ado-Ekiti.
The motion for the request for Police to furnish the Senate with Service number of policemen deployed for the governorship election was sponsored by Senator Dino Melaye.
Rather, the president urged voters to elect the candidate of the All Progressives Party, Dr Kayode Fayemi, given the track record of the ruling APC administration in the country.
The commission’s Head, Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
The Commandant-General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Abdullahi Muhammadu, has ordered the deployment of 19,997 personnel, Mobile Surveillance Vehicles and Sniffer Dogs for Saturday’s governorship Ekiti polls.
Muhammadu gave the directives while addressing the Deputy Commandant General in charge of Operations, Hillary Madu Kelechi, on the need for effective deployment to cover all nooks and crannies in Ekiti State before, during and after the election.
He said the APC is the solution to four years of frustration, disappointment and poverty that had enveloped the state, since the emergence of Governor Ayodele Fayose in 2014.
The fake ballot papers, said to have been ordered by the Ekiti State Independent Electoral Commission, were discovered at O’Naphtali Limited at 13a and 13b, Oguntona Crescent, Gbagada, Lagos State.
The warning came on the heels of disruption of the stakeholders meeting organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission by members of the Peoples Democratic Party at the Eagle Hall, Ado-Ekiti on Monday.