We Have Not Endorsed Any Candidate For APC Ekiti Governorship -Oyegun

File Photo: APC National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun

The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun, has said that the party has not endorsed any candidate for the governorship election in Ekiti State.

In an interview with Premium Times, Oyegun said, the party would avail an equal opportunity for all contestants, saying whoever emerges the winner in an open contest would be the flag bearer of the party.

“We don’t endorse for anyone. The party cannot endorse,we are father of all; every member and contestant,” he said.

He also dismissed speculations that a recent visit to President Muhammadu Buhari by the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi, in company of a former governor of Ekiti State, Niyi Adebayo, was an endorsement of Fayemi.

“The APC is a democratic party, we are not dictatorial or nocturnal in all our dealings. When you talk of a consensus candidate, you talk of the common decision of all the contestants to pick on one person, not that any leader will come and impose a candidate against the will of the party delegates who are entitled to their votes,” he said.

“If I didn’t impose a candidate in my state, Edo, and in other states where primary elections had been conducted by our party; if the president had not imposed anybody in those states, why should we do such in Ekiti?” he questioned.