The Ikere Local Government APC Stakeholders’ Forum has urged President Buhari to give special reference to the council in the choice of the next minister from Ekiti, being the largest town in the district that can sway votes in favour of the party in both governorship and presidential elections.

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The APC Forum, Ikere chapter, in a statement by its Chairman, Niyi Olabode, stated that the choice of Ikere Ekiti for the ministerial slot would be a masterstroke,  being the town of the governorship candidate of the PDP, Prof Kolapo Olusola.

The group posited that the party risks losing the Ekiti election if the party decides not to reckon with the council in both deputy governorship and ministerial slots.

Olabode, who signed the statement said: “The six local governments from Ekiti South are united in the struggle for the Ministerial slot, but we can’t but put political consideration to whatever we do as a political party. “Ikere has over 80,000 registered voters out of which they will deliver 95 percent because of the high level of electoral participation in the town since 1999. “With this verifiable fact, it will be of tremendous benefit to President Buhari to accede to the request that while the South is allowed to produce Dr Fayemi’s successor in FEC, the choice of an Ikere Ekiti indigene will make it more mutually beneficial in terms of voting and winning elections in Ekiti.”