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They said the decision to support Fayemi was reached through a combination of persuasion, reconciliation, consensus-building and understanding on the part of all the stakeholders, pointing out that they as leaders held several intervention meetings in Abuja, Lagos and Ekiti with all the APC Ekiti State gubernatorial aspirants, where they resolved to support whoever emerges from the party’s primaries.

The party said this has become necessary since Fayemi claimed his administration was raking in an average of N600 million monthly as IGR and which totals N7.2 billion yearly, while the figures his administration gave to the National Bureau of Statistics, the Federal Ministry of Finance, the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation among others did not tally with the claim.

A quick recall of the historical past of the Ekitis vividly reminds of the gallantry of their ancestors during the eponymous inter-tribal wars tagged the Ekiti Parapo wars. The wars, which ended all the wars in Yorubaland, was unarguably the last and most protracted military campaign that plagued the Yoruba nation.

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.