…APC insists on Al-Makura, orders fresh primaries Friday
…Gov Ajimobi, Minister in war-of-words over Oyo Primary
Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Prof Kolapo Eleka, on Tuesday, emerged Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) governorship candidate for the July 14, 2018 gubernatorial election inside the state.
Out of the 1968 votes casted, Eleka polled 1,191 votes to defeat former Works minister, Dayo Adeyeye, who polled 770 votes whereas seven votes had been voided.
The third aspirant, Senator Abiodun Olujinmi, had earlier inside the day stepped down for Adeyeye when she requested her supporters to vote for Adeyeye, noting that she sacrificed her ambition for peace, progress, and stability of the party.
The rancour free election was carried out by the Electoral Committee headed by Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.
Accreditation of Delegates started at about 10am on the Eagle Event centre, Ajilosun area of Ado-Ekiti, the state capital,
The party had recommended all stakeholders, notably, the aspirants for the spirit of sportsmanship displayed of their dedication within the path of a peaceful and free credible course of.
The party extra applauded the stakeholders inside the state for holding to their resolve to work collectively to verify the victory of the party on the foremost election, no matter the results of the primary elections.
The administration of the party restated its stand to proceed inside the highest stage of transparency and to verify an all-inclusive collaborating in ground for all aspirants in the entire processes ensuing within the governorship main.
Governor Okowa whereas asserting the outcomes, hailed the contestants and delegates for displaying maturity, declaring that the occasion had as soon as extra confirmed that the PDP was actually a democratic celebration.
He acknowledged: “By the power vested in me as a result of the Returning Officer, I hereby return Prof Kolapo Olusola Eleka as a result of the duly nominated gubernatorial candidate of the PDP for Ekiti State governorship election, having scored one of the best number of votes solid on this election.
“I want to congratulate Prof Kolapo Olusola Eleka for his victory. I wish him well”.
He thanked Governor Ayo Fayose for his assist, notably for the security males and members of the panel, saying this accounted for success of the poll.
Governor Okowa recommended Fayose for having fun with a fatherly operate, urging celebration members to immediately bury the hatchets elicited by the scramble for the governorship ticket by rallying assist for Eleka for the PDP to have the power to retain Ekiti State.
He thanked the party members for his or her endurance and heads of security companies for doing job, saying that , “we thank you for doing a good job”.
Responding, Eleka acknowledged he would proceed to indicate loyalty to the party and he thanked people who facilitated his victory.
“I humbly thank all our celebration stalwarts who made this victory doable, notably , Governor Ayodele Fayose.
“I have to thank the doggedness of my co-contestant, Prince Adeyeye. History can have it that he put in his best for a higher Ekiti.
“I am determined to maneuver Ekiti forward by sustaining these legacies that had been started by our amiable governor.
“We are acutely aware of the plans of the interlopers who wished to grab power via the backdoor. Whether they like it or not, we'll give them one different 16-Zero as soon as extra with the assistance of Ekiti people.
“I thank Governor Fayose for standing firm behind me despite all odds. I shall eternally be grateful to you for this love”.
Fayose in his response, jokingly actually helpful Okowa to the APC for the conduct of the rescheduled main in Ekiti, saying that “APC is worse than the PDP in every aspect”.
He acknowledged he'll attain out to Adeyeye and Olujimi to ensure them of relevance inside the party.
The election was carried out beneath a peaceful and successfully organized atmosphere not like violence that disrupted the All Progressives Congress (APC) main election closing Saturday.
The delegates and security brokers comported themselves in a peaceful methodology and this significantly helped the results of the election the people anticipated might be violent.
The security throughout the venue was tight as blended forces of the Police, males of the Department of State Services(DSS) and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) cordoned off all roads ensuing within the Eagle Event centre in Ado Ekiti.
The security brokers led by Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr. Chijoke Ndu, prevented some journalists from coming into the venue, as they'd been chased away with sniffer canines.
Meanwhile, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has cancelled closing Saturday’s gubernatorial main election in Ekiti State, and has consequently mounted Friday for the conduct of latest primaries.
The NWC, which took the selection after a gathering closing night time time nonetheless suspended the brokers of aspirants who had been acknowledged to have disrupted the strategy from extra collaborating inside the main election in irrespective of functionality.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, in a press conference on the National Secretariat on Tuesday in Abuja acknowledged: “Perhaps, more importantly is that the exercise of Saturday is cancelled and would now be conducted this Friday, 11th May, 2018”.
Insisting on Nasarawa State Governor Tanko Al-Makura conducting the latest main, Abdullahi acknowledged, “The existing primary election committee is maintained, except the secretary who will now be substituted”.
Abdullahi acknowledged the committee secretary was under no circumstances indicted for compromising the strategy nevertheless that ” practically all aspirants complained that the secretary has an in depth relationship with one in every of their colleagues and so we decided to drop him as a technique to guard the integrity of the strategy and by no means because of he was found to have compromised”.
He acknowledged: “All acknowledged unruly brokers that participated inside the suspended main election of 5 May 2018 are disqualified from collaborating In the rescheduled main as brokers. Accordingly, the following people are hereby disqualified from collaborating as brokers or partaking inside the rescheduled main in irrespective of functionality; Ayodeji Omowaye, Rotimi Faleye, Kayode Afolabi, Oladele Ademola Samuel, Oyetunde Ojo, Akintade Olayisade and Temitope Adewumi.
“All agent tags must bear the name of aspirants they represent. All agents in the rescheduled primary election are hereby barred from coming to the voting arena with their mobile phones”.
Other alternatives reached by the NWC are: “Security brokers from completely different states is likely to be mobilized to protected the venue and officers inside the rescheduled election.
One explicit particular person might be appointed matter to the consensus of all aspirants to assist people with incapacity and illiterate voters.
All aspirants mustn't go away their sitting place besides with the approval of the primary committee
“All aspirants might be held vicariously answerable for the conduct of their brokers and names of aspirants might be written inside the following order as acknowledged below: Ajayi Olatunji Olowo and Olubunmi Kayode.
“The NWC condemn the disruption of the Primary of 5th May and resolved that all found culpable, directly or indirectly will be punished in accordance with the relevant provisions of the party constitution”, Bolaji declared.
In a related enchancment, Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi and the Minister of Communications, Chief Adebayo Shittu, are literally at each other throats over the newest APC main in Oyo State.
While the minister is threatening to jail the governor if he turns into the next governor of the state, Governor Ajimobi acknowledged the minister is the one which must be afraid of going to jail in view of his conduct and refusal to pay his aides
Shittu has declared that he'll be sure that the incumbent governor of Oyo State is jailed when he lastly turns into governor of the state in 2019.
Shittu moreover declared that he was not decided to be governor, nevertheless Governor Ajimobi knew he was too principled for him referring to drawback of morality.
Speaking to newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja after a closed door meeting with the APC National Chairman, Chief John Oyegun, the place he (Minister) complained in regards to the disruption of ward congresses in Oyo State, the mood minister accused Governor Ajimobi of desperation to stop his governorship ambition.
He acknowledged: “I have to say that if anybody is set inside the Oyo political firmament, it must be Governor Ajimobi who believes that if Barrister Shittu succeeds him he is likely to be in jail.
That is what he is reported to have always knowledgeable people who talked about me to him.
“He thinks that I am too principled, company, un-bendable and uncompromising referring to the issues of morality. It is he who's decided to stop me not me being decided to turn into governor.
“The tips are clearly there and like every particular person who believes inside the rule as a lawyer and man of laws and order, if I observe the rules to contest the primaries in a free, truthful and credible poll and did not win, I am going to take up one factor else.
I am not decided to turn into the governor of Oyo State. It is the alternative means spherical because of the governor is set to stop me for irrespective of goal”.
When requested whether or not or not he has taken good thing about Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s APC reconciliation panel to end in decision to the disagreement between him and the governor, the Minister acknowledged:
“I can say straight away that I am like any other Nigerian that heard that a committee was constituted. No invitation was extended to me for any purpose of discussions, negotiations, reconciliations or whatever. Nobody can blame me for that”.
On what he must acceptable as governor, Shittu acknowledged: “He (Ajimobi) has failed in so many points along with human relations and others I am unable to say overtly inside the media.
Why is he afraid of going to jail if one different Buhari like me includes power in Oyo state? Why is he afraid of primaries”, he queried, saying;
“For seven years, he has been working the Local Government alone with out elected officers. What it means is that the LGA funds come instantly into his pocket.
He devoted so many atrocities and that is the rationale he is afraid of a Buhari coming to power in Oyo State”.
But Ajimobi has urged Shittu and aggrieved stakeholders inside the merely concluded ward congresses of the APC to find the party’s internal organs for looking for redress moderately than partaking in actions capable of extra sowing the seed of discord contained in the party.
As leaders and stakeholders inside the party, the governor acknowledged it is likely to be counter-productive to engage in actions and utterances which can be prone to extra divide the party, together with that he would on his private half proceed to do the best for Oyo State.
A press launch issued by the Special Adviser, Communication and Strategy to the Governor, Mr. Bolaji Tunji, acknowledged the advice turned important in view of the utterances credited to the Minister of Communications, Mr. Adebayo Shittu and his cohorts inside the aftermath of the ward congresses held on Sunday.
The governor acknowledged that the minister must be the one to be afraid of going to jail in view of the damaging allegations made in opposition to him by all his aides who resigned en mass following his refusal to pay their emoluments.
The Governor acknowledged: “In any case, Shittu must be the one which must be afraid of going to jail in view of many allegations made in opposition to him as minister.
Few of these are his alleged illegally-acquired property in Ibadan and Abuja and sudden unexplainable and stupendous wealth not commensurate collectively together with his emoluments.
“In addition, his newest try to convert and acceptable a parcel of land belonging to Saki group, which was stoutly resisted by his private people, has confirmed his stage of greed, avarice and penchant for appropriating what does not belong to him.
“Governor Ajimobi stays a distinguished Senator of the nation who had effectively traversed the corporate world and acquired to the peak of his occupation as a result of the Managing Director and Chief Executive of a multinational; a spot that requires an extreme diploma of integrity, means and performance.
“All these attributes have mirrored in the way in which by which he has effectively managed the affairs of the state inside the closing seven years, which has transformed the face and fortunes of the state and had attracted unmatched number of consumers to the state.
“Similarly, Governor Ajimobi’s monitor doc in his first time interval earned him an unprecedented second time interval, a feat for which he would ceaselessly keep grateful to the nice people of the state.
“Something that may not be taken away from Governor Ajimobi is his unrepentant dedication to the peace of thoughts of peace, safety and security all through the dimensions and breadth of Oyo State, which had hitherto been beneath the administration of some erstwhile garrison commanders.
“Having continually obtained elections by the years, Ajimobi stays an individual to be rivaled by politicians who're acknowledged to be serial election losers and now decided to turn into the governor of Oyo State the place governance has been raised previous the limit of people with mediocre means.
“In the ultimate seven years, Ajimobi has managed the affairs of Oyo State prudently and with the priority of God, and will not be distracted from his well-articulated programmes of security, safety and peace along with the developmental strides which the administration has been acknowledged for; until May 29, 2019 when he'll hand over to a worthy, succesful, seasoned and examined successor.
“Ajimobi stays the chief and father of the APC and won't cease to work within the path of the success of the party on the state and nationwide ranges, and the progress of the state.