The party said the unprecedented orderliness and spirit of sportsmanship that pervaded the exercise is a clear testimony of the engrained values of fairness and strict adherence to internal democracy in the rebranded, repositioned and retooled PDP.
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Out of the total of number of votes, as announced by leader of PDP electoral committee, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta, Eleka scored 1,190 to defeat the only challenger in the race, a former Minister of Works, Dayo Adeyeye, who scored 771 votes.
Former National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, who briefed newsmen after the meeting, said the leaders would advise the party’s national leadership on the proposed fresh primary in Ekiti.
Announcing the withdrawal at 2.15 p.m., shortly before the commencement of the party’s governorship primary election on Tuesday in Ado Ekiti, she said that she had stepped down for another contender, Adedayo Adeyeye.
A News Agency of Nigeria correspondent at the venue reports that armed combined teams of policemen as well as Department of State Services and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps personnel have taken over the expansive event centre located on the Ado-Ikere road where the exercise is ongoing.
Secondus told newsmen on Monday in Abuja that Ekiti remained a PDP state and that the party was following the right path to elect its flag-bearer in a primary election scheduled for Tuesday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that protesters, who claimed to be sympathetic to the aspiration of the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, had besieged the secretariat on the Ajilosun- Ikere road where they announced the removal of the state executives led by Chief Jide Awe.
It said: “The party commends all stakeholders, particularly, the aspirants for the spirit of sportsmanship being displayed in their commitment towards a peaceful and free credible process.
Fayose said in the statement: “I am alarmed by the violent disruption of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election in Ekiti State yesterday, most importantly its implications on the July 14 election.
The UNICEF and Ekiti State Government stated this at the end of a stakeholders meeting of the State Technical Committee on FGM held in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday.
Fayemi offered the explanation on Saturday when he spoke with newsmen shortly after the suspension of the primaries that was supposed to produce the party’s candidate for the July 14, 2018 election.
Governor Fayose reacted to the APC governorship primary outcome through his Special Assistant on Public Communication and New Media, Lere Olayinka.
“When they said they were going to cripple the state, we did not know what they meant was to attempt to forcefully hijack the ticket.
The winner of Saturday’s primary election will fly the party’s flag in the July 14 Ekiti governorship election, in which the APC is seeking to oust the Peoples Democratic Party in the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the protesters had alleged that attempts were being made by some party officials to compromise the process.
Bade-Gboyega, who was the sole candidate in the primary election of the party, was unanimously adopted by all the 80 delegates across the 16 local government areas of the state.
Taiwo Olatubosun, the state Publicity Secretary of the party, disclosed this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeriain Ado-Ekiti, adding that aspirants were those who scaled through the party screening for the primaries.
The party declared that the governor’s meddlesomeness was a sign that he has become frustrated and jittery.
Fayose said genuine lovers of democracy should be worried that over N5 billion cash will be going into mere primary election of a political party that claimed to be fighting corruption.
Four years after the defeat of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), the party is desperate to reclaim a battered image. However, even with the assumed backing of the Federal authorities, the defeat of Mr Fayose and his crony is not given. The possibility of APC dodging another devastating downfall depends on who wins the primary election slated for this Saturday