Drama In Ekiti As PDP Sweeps LG Polls, APC Boycotts
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won all the 16 chairmanship and 177 councillorship positions contested in the local government elections held in Ekiti state on Saturday, December 19.
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Five political parties contested in the election, with the PDP making a clean sweep at the poll.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that Justice Kayode Bamisile, the chairman of Ekiti state Independent Electoral Commission (EKSIEC), said all the winners are expected to be inaugurated today, December 21, by Governor Ayo Fayose after they might have received their Certificates of Return from SIEC.
Those who won the chairmanship seats are Dapo Olagunju (Ifelodun/Irepodun), Deji Ogunsakin (Ado Ekiti), Sade Akinrinmola (Gbonyin), Bola Alonge, (Ikere), Lanrewaju Omolase (Ekiti South West).
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Others are, Olumide Falade, (Ise/Orun), Kolawole Omotunde (Ekiti West), Bolaji Jeje (Efon), Samuel Adeniyi, (Ekiti East), Ayodeji Arogbodo, (Ido/Osi), Tayo Ogundare (Oye) and Taiwo Oguntunase, (Emure), Adesola Adeyanju, (Ikole), Ganiyu Bakare, (Ilejemeje), Abiodun Dada (Ijero) and Adeniyi Adebayo (Moba).
In a statement by Idowu Adelusi, the chief press secretary to the governor, all the new chairmen, party leaders, traditional rulers and guests of the chairmen were expected to attend the inauguration ceremony.
The statement reads: “The successful conduct of the council election by Governor Fayose’s administration is a promise made to the people that have been kept.
“The hallmark of a genuine democrat was allowing people to express their choice on who governs them.”
Reacting shortly after, Duro Faseyi, senator representing the Ekiti North Senatorial District in the National Assembly, praised Governor Fayose for installing democratic structures in the 16 council areas of the state by conducting local government elections, saying this would guarantee some level of independence for the third tier that he described as pivotal to the country’s development.
Faseyi, who spoke at his Iludun Ekiti hometown yesterday, December 20, also lambasted the All Progressives Congress (APC) for boycotting the council polls.
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However, in a statement by Taiwo Olatunbosun, the APC publicity secretary in Ekiti state, commended voters in the state for boycotting the Saturday election
Olatunbosun said the people behaved honourably for staying away from the election boycotted by all political parties except the PDP.
He described the exercise as a mockery of democratic election, saying an election with a single party participating while also raising PDP members to pose as candidates of obscure parties would never pass the test of representative poll.
The party added that across the state, Ekiti people spoke with one voice by staying in their homes and watched from distance as PDP members engaged in multiple thumb-printing to give the impression that there was massive turn-out of voters.
Source: Legit.ng
