Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has told Ekiti State voters to embrace the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Kayode Fayemi in the next Saturday’s election, and not allow themselves to be demeaned by the concept of stomach infrastructure.
But the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described Tuesday’s rally by the APC in Ekiti State as a charade in which non-performing governors were brought to campaign for the party’s governorship candidate, Fayemi.
Ekiti State governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, stated that the National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, was not fit to query his academic credentials, and urged the ruling party’s chairman to tell President Buhari to tender his credentials before raising issues about him.
However, there was a mild drama at the APC rally yesterday as the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, unwittingly implored the Ekiti electorate to vote for Governor Ayodele Fayose of the PDP in the forthcoming gubernatorial election.
Speaking at the rally held at the popular Oluyemi Kayode Stadium in Ado Ekiti, the state capital city, Buhari also dispelled the insinuation by detractors that he had been protecting the killer herdsmen owing to his ethnic affinity with them, saying he has not shied away from his responsibility to provide security for every Nigerian, regardless of race and religion.
National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and Oshiomhole also urged Ekiti electorate to vote Fayemi to bail the state out of poverty being experienced under Fayose’s government.
Dignitaries at the event were: Governor Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo), Rauf Aregbesola(Osun), Bindow Jbrilla (Adamawa), Kashim Shetima (Borno), Senator Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo), Abubakar Badaru (Jigawa), Edo Deputy Governor, Hon. Philip Shuaib; Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Abdulaziz Yari(Zamfara), and Yahaya Bello(Kogi).
Others were: Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha; Ministers of Labour, Chief Chris Ngige; Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola; Senior Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs, Abike Dabiri;former Governors Niyi Adebayo, Segun Osoba, Segun Oni, and Chief Bisi Akande, among others.