EKITI 2018: TIGHT SECURITY AS ADEYEYE DECLARES FOR GOVERNORSHIP
EKITI
2018: TIGHT SECURITY AS ADEYEYE DECLARES FOR
GOVERNORSHIP
There was massive security beef up in Ado Ekiti yesterday as
the former Minister of Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye declared his governorship
ambition in Ekiti State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Adeyeye vowed that efforts by the State Governor, Mr.
Ayodele Fayose to muzzle all the aspirants vying for the plum seat with the
exception of his preferred candidate and deputy governor, Prof. Kolapo Olusola,
will be frustrated.
Adeyeye, who is challenging the deputy Governor, Prof Kolapo
Olusola, who had earlier been endorsed by Governor Fayose, said he would fight
tooth and nail to prevent the governor from imposing his surrogate on the
people.
The declaration, which witnessed mammoth crowd of supporters
across the 16 local government areas of the state, started like a protest march
at the NNPC along Iworoko road.
The participants walked via Adebayo to Ijigbo and ended in
front of the Prince Adedayo Adeyeye campaign headquarters in Ajilosun area of
the state capital.
The police deployed Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) and
stern looking operatives to curtail any miscreant who could hide under the
crisis between Fayose and Adeyeye to ignite trouble.
Addressing his supporters, Adeyeye said Fayose was
privileged to be Governor and warned that he should stop playing God on the
issue of Ekiti governorship election.
He said: “I have confidence in Uche Secondus-led NWC to
conduct a free, fair and credible poll in Ekiti. I served the PDP as the
National Publicity Secretary of the Caretaker Committee for 18 months and we
conducted a credible convention that brought the new executives.
“I believe that they will not pander to the bidding of
Governor Fayose, who has turned himself into a thin god.
“Let me say this, I will defeat Fayose’s candidate in a free
and fair primary. I will use myself;f to lay a foundation that you can emerge
the flagbearer of a party even without governor’s support, because nobody can
play God. It is God that anoints.”
“But anything outside a credible primary to field a strong
candidate like me, then it means the party has shortchanged itself in Ekiti in
the July 14 governorship election”, he said.
Adeyeye promised to work hard to make Ekti the hub of higher
education in Nigeria, while also investing heavily in the areas of rice and
cocoa production to boost the economy.
He derided Fayose for allegedly killing investment in Ekiti,
saying “the governor even made efforts to kill my radio station, the first
private station in Ekiti, it was as bad as that.”
“I served as a SUBEB Chairman in Ekiti and the record I left
there remains indelible. I am the best for the job and I will clinch the PDP’s
ticket in spite of opposition”, he boasted.
