The Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Prof. Abdulganiyu Raji, made this known at the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room dialogue on Ekiti Governorship Election, on Tuesday in Abuja.
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Oni, who came second in the party’s primary, made the declaration in Ifaki-Ekiti while addressing his campaign council chairmen and team members from the 16 local government areas of the state.
The PDP said this in a statement by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan.
Even before the party came out with a demand for a demand for probe and an assurance of adequate security protection for Fayemi’s campaign train, Nigerians had already been treated to what to expect in the coming days. Interestingly, Ekiti State happened just some few hours after startling revelations of murderous acts by a former chieftain of a party in which direction accusing fingers are being pointed.
The campaign organization, which described Governor Akeredolu coming to Ekiti to market Fayemi as “a failure advertising another failure,” reiterated: “Ekiti is not a state to be taken by force and annexed to Ondo State by anyone.
PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, inaugurated the committee on Monday in Abuja at the PDP National Secretariat.
At the welcome rally organized by the All Progressives Congress for its governorship candidate for the July 14 election, Bamidele and five other persons were shot among the crowd when a policeman mishandled his riffle and released sporadic gunshots into the crowd.
The suspension came as the police command in the state released the report of Friday’s shooting incident at the APC rally organised to welcome back to the state its flagbearer in the July 14 governorship election, Dr Kayode Fayemi.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the 22-year- old bagged the sentence for the offence which he committed on November 10, 2014 at Ado central area of Ado Ekiti.
The campaign organization said it was alarmed at the report of the arrest of one Ogunyemi Temitope, who led a group of people to Aiyede Ekiti on Thursday to collect more than 30 voters cards and account numbers from unsuspecting electorate, questioning why the APC was desperate to prevent people from voting on the election day.
After a long search for the candidate, Egbeyemi was picked as the candidate this evening after party leaders met for long hours to consider who is best suited to pair with former Governor and immediate past Minister of Mines an Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, to fly the party’s flag in the governorship contest.
The adoption and announcement of the party was made in Abuja by the coalition which has leaders, including Dr. Olisa Agbakoba and Dr. Abduljalil Tafawa Balewa, as members of the National Executive Council.
KOCO said this in reaction to the APC’s allegation of “mutual liaisons in night meetings” between Governor Ayodele Fayose and the Ekiti State Coordinator of the National Youths Service Corps, Nwanu Eze Ukagha.
Olayinka said Buhari and Obasanjo should rather fight their battle alone because when they were going to Obasanjo’s house to prostrate for him to get his support, they never remembered that he was a despot and that he spent $16 billion on power.
It is a follow up to their first meeting a day after the primary election won by Fayemi.
The governor made the disclosure in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communication and New Media, Lere Olayinka in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday.
Adeyeye, who lost in the just concluded PDP governorship primary in Ekiti, told a news conference at his Ado Ekiti residence that he defected because he could no longer operate on the same pedestal with the state governor, Ayo Fayose.
Time, that greatest healer of all wounds, will soon tell if Fayemi’s groveling apology to the people of Ekiti has been accepted. Time will tell if he is truly the stone that was once rejected but about to be the capstone
Fayemi paid the visit to the family house in Olorunkemi Estate, Alaka Elebu, Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Sunday.
The party described the 77-man campaign committee set up by the APC on the State governorship election as a “gathering of looters that will make the PDP victory in the July 14 election sweeter and memorable.