Ado-Ekiti-In a bid to avoid the political booby trap that
threw the succession plan of Governor Olusegun Mimiko into disarray and
eclipsed the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in the just concluded Ondo
governorship election, Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, hinted
Wednesday on the possibility of using another platform to prosecute his
succession battle during the 2018 governorship poll . Fayose, who dropped the
hint in Ikere Ekiti while meeting with the members of the Suppliers’
Association of Nigeria, Ikere chapter, said “I don’t know the platform I will use
for the 2018 election yet and at the appropriate time, I will tell you”.
“We are still studying the situation . We have to play the
game left, right and centre and whoever we are going to use and the platform,
you will all be part of the process because party politics is about the
people”. Fayose also said the victory of Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, the candidate of
the All Progressives Congress(APC) in the Saturday’s governorship poll in Ondo
State does not in any way threaten the popularity and general acceptability of
the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Ekiti. The governor, who described
Akeredolu’s victory at the poll as a contrivance of the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) in cahoot with APC, added that the victory the did
not confer legitimacy on the poll or lent credence to the fact that Ondo
electorate had voted rightly. “You all saw how people sold their votes in Ondo
state, I am confident that that will not happen in Ekiti. I am close to the
people you are the source of my strength . Even if it requires just 48 hours to
any election, if I tell you where to go, you will surely follow me there”,
Fayose said.
Compiled By Rotimi Ojomoyela
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