Ekiti 2018: Fayemi declares Saturday, notifi es Tinubu, party

A former governor of Ekiti state and Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, will make his public declaration to contest the governorship election on Saturday, April 14.

A statement by Fayemi’s Special Adviser on Media, Yinka Oyebode, said the minister has written the national and state leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), elders, prominent citizens and traditional rulers in the state, notifying them of his intention to run for the governorship election in the state.

He said that National Chairman of the party, Chief John Oyegun, National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Interim National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, all traditional rulers in Ekiti state, his colleagues in the Federal Executive Council (FEC); former and serving governors elected on APC platform, as well as prominent sons and daughters of Ekiti had been notified through the letter

. The minister had on April 2 hinted on his plan to run for the party’s ticket during the quarterly meeting of the Ekiti APC leaders at his Isan Ekiti country home. Ahead of the Saturday public declaration, the minister had also undertaken a tour of the 16 local government areas of the state, where he held meetings with local government and ward executives as well as elders of the party.

Fayemi advised all APC members to unite in order to successfully confront and defeat the incumbent PDP government in the state, come July 14, 2018.

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