The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti state has nominated former executive chairman of Ado-Ekiti local government, Chief Adebisi Adegboyega Egbeyemi, as the deputy governorship candidate of the party.
A statement from JKF campaign office in Ado-Ekiti disclosed that Egbeyemi was picked as the candidate in late hours of Wednesday, May 30, after party leaders met to consider who is best suited to pair with former governor and immediate past minister of mines and steel development, Kayode Fayemi, to fly the party’s flag in the governorship contest, Vanguard reports.
NAIJ.com gathered that the statement which was signed by Wole Olujobi said Egbeyemi’s choice came after speculations by the expectant public spread that certain eminent indigenes of the state had been picked to fly the ticket with Fayemi in the July 14, 2018 governorship poll.
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Egbeyemi is an indigene of Ado-Ekiti. His political experiences spanned many fields, including the youth leader of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) between 1979 and 1983; a member of the Ondo State House of Assembly in 1983; and executive chairman of Ado-Ekiti local government area between 1991 and 1993.
Others include leader of the United Nigeria Congress Party (UNCP) in Ado-Ekiti local government area between 1996 and 1997 and was founding member of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), using the platform to win the House of Representatives election that was cancelled by the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, in 1998.
Between 1991 and 1992, he was the commissioner of education. Egbeyemi was a member of the Governing Council of the National Teachers’ Institute, Kaduna, between 2001 and 2002.
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NAIJ.com previously reported that the APC had been accused of perfecting an alleged plot to rig the July 14 Ekiti governorship election in cahoots with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), by the state governor, Ayodele Fayose.
Fayose made the allegation in a chat with reporters in his office, late Tuesday night, May 30.
The governor claimed that the APC and INEC had allegedly struck a deal to disenfranchise 50% of the Ekiti electorate by “heavily pre-loading the smart card readers.”
According to Fayose, thousands of voters would be disenfranchised in Ikere-Ekiti, the hometown of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s candidate, Prof Kolapo Olusola and Ado-Ekiti, the hometown of his running mate, Ayodeji Ogunsakin.
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