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.
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The Campaign Office made the allegation in a statement signed by Yinka Oyebode.
He stated this on Monday in Abuja while speaking with newsmen at the APC National Headquarters after picking Expression of Interest Form and Nomination forms to contest the election.
Although I am not a politician and I have no sympathy for any political party, I am a critical stakeholder in the Ekiti Project. As a community leader, whoever becomes the governor of Ekiti State should be of great interest to me personally
Sani, who represents Kaduna Central at the Senate, gave the assurance on Sunday in Abuja while speaking with newsmen after meeting with Segun Oni, leader of the party’s fact-finding committee on crisis.
Oni, the Deputy National Chairman (South) of the APC, gave the assurance, when he addressed newsmen shortly after he led other committee members to the site of the demolished factional secretariat of the party at 11B, Sambo Road in Kaduna.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the event took place at the popular Sani Abacha Stadium before a large crowd of supporters
Oni, who is the Deputy National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, was among the 209 board chairmen and 1,258 board members appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari on December 29, 2017.
The Director-General, Segun Oni Campaign Organisation, Dr. Ifeoluwa Arowosoge, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that Oni would bring social and economic emancipation to Ekiti State
The Chairman, House Committee on Information of the Ekiti State House Assembly and member representing Oye Constituency in Oye Local Government Area of the state, Samuel Omotosho, declared the House’s position on Magu during the presentation of the 2015 Report by the House Committee on Public Accounts
While it is not clear if Fayemi is keen to do so having spoken about the unfinished business of the 2014 election in the state (in reference to the criminal role of security agencies in that election) and the determined effort of his party to seek judicial review of what has become popularly known as EkitiGate, there is a growing campaign on the part of some of his loyalists that regardless of the outcome of the judicial review, Ekiti State needs him to return to rescue her from years of ruin, pillage and pestilence. Even at that, opinion remains divided among political pundits between those who favour his return, as the most prominent and visible politician in APC who has been uncompromising in his opposition to the Peoples Democratic Party juggernaut in the state, and the one capable of rallying both local and national support to rout the incumbent, Governor Ayo Fayose, and those who believe he should stay above the fray and help to determine who gets the APC ticket in the state.
Oni, also the Deputy National Chairman (South) of the APC, said this in a statement signed by Steve Alabi, the Director, Media and Publicity, Segun Oni Campaign Organisation.
He said he had never had a one-on-one with the PDP National Caretaker Committee Chairman, Alhaji Ahmed Makarfi, in his life.
According to a statement signed by Edegbe Odemwingie, the APC Assistant Director, Publicity, Oni said this when a UK Member of Parliament for Edmonton, Kate Osamor, visited the APC national leadership on Wednesday in Abuja.
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Fayose had in a letter to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, accused former Governors Segun Oni and Kayode Fayemi of clandestine moves to coerce the judiciary to use the Army Panel report to reverse his election victory
The PDP reminded Fayemi and Oni of how the APC, out of desperation, tried to use the judiciary to prevent Governor Fayose from assuming office in 2014
Fayemi, however, said he would rather not dignify Fayose’s rantings with a response
The information is in a statement by Edegbe Odemwingie, the party’s Assistant Director of Publicity, made available on Tuesday in Abuja
This was contained in a statement signed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Dayo Adeyeye, on Wednesday in Abuja