APC Heavyweights Storm Ekiti State To Seek Victory For APC

As the People of Ekiti gear up to elect a new leader, coupled with the planned visit of President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, to round up the campaign of the All Progressive Party Flag-bearer in the governorship election, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, APC political heavyweight, led by the party’s national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, have stormed the state to solicit for the favour of the people of the state to vote in the APC.

Apart from the Former governor of Lagos State, others APC big guns include Chief Bisi Akande, former governors Segun Osoba, (Ogun), Segun Oni, (Ekiti) and the Deputy Chairman, South of the party, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, who was also the first democratically elected governor of Ekiti in 1999.

Others are, governors of Ondo, Rotimi Akeredolu, Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun and the Kebbi state governor, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu, who is also the Chairman of the Campaign Committee of the Ekiti gubernatorial election for the APC, among other leaders.

In an Interview with the News Agency od Nigeria, (NAN), Tinubu admonished the people of Ekiti to come out in large number on election day to vote in Dr. Kayode Fayemi.

He stated that the four years of frustration, disappointment and poverty the state has endured under the present administration of Governor Ayodele Fayose can only be solved by the APC.

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected in Ekiti on Tuesday to meet with the traditional rulers, APC leaders and supporters in the state and as well close the rally of the APC candidate, Dr Kayode Fayemi, ahead Saturday’s governorship election in the state.

“We thank the people of Ekiti for being kind and hospitable to us all along. We, the leaders of APC are here to greet Ekiti people and commend them for being tolerant to the maladministration of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) before the emergence of the APC at the Federal level and Ekiti, in particular.

“We have had 16 years of maladministration, bad governance, misrule and series of complaints on our economy, education, non-development and several other segments of our country. It is all from the poor foundation laid by the PDP government for 16 years and thank God for our timely intervention at the federal level, the nation would have collapsed.

“The only remnant of them is Ekiti. I therefore want to appeal to you that Dr Kayode Fayemi, the candidate of our party in the Saturday election is our brother and colleague and has learnt a great lesson about governance.

” That is why we, the leaders in the party are standing as guarantors of the commitments that definitely Ekiti will experience rapid development if you vote for our party and we appeal to you to vote Dr Kayode Fayemi as the next governor of Ekiti,” he said.

The former Lagos governor reminded the youths that the future is now, saying that, “the future is yours and the government is ours. The APC is ready to lay the foundation for a better future for you. Don’t because of two slices of bread today mortgage your future.

“Don’t because of intimidation of a lone ranger fail to exercise your franchise.The broom is a bunch of unity, the symbol we offer to you today is the broom. We want you to vote en masse, there will not be violence or intimidation. All I am appealing is that you should give APC a chance to show its worth to the people of Ekiti.”

In the same vain, Chief Bisi Akande, while speaking to newsmen stated that Ekiti state cannot gain anything from the the odd one out among southwest states.

“The Saturday election will go in peace. It is therefore time for all Yorubas to come together. Ekiti cannot afford to be in the opposition. It is certain that APC will win on Saturday,” he declared.