lagos—The E-Eleven, a forum of Ekiti stakeholders, yesterday distanced the people of the state from the state governor, Ayodele Fayose’s advert, insinuating that the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammad Buhari, (rtd), will die in office if elected on February 14th.

The chairman of the forum, Mr. Femi Ajiniran, said; “We (Ekiti people) are not in any way against the North; nor are we against any geopolitical zone in Nigeria. We believe firmly in the principle of equality as espoused in the 1999 Constitution,” adding that the view expressed in the advert “is Fayose’s personal opinion.”

E-Eleven in a statement issued by Ajiniran in Lagos, noted that the advert was placed by “Fayose as an individual and as a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), whose interest he sought to protect.”

Ajiniran affirmed that the governor’s advert “violates the non-violence clause of the Electoral Act, 2011. It, also, breaches the peace agreement facilitated by former Secretary-General of United Nations, Mr. Kofi Annan and former Secretary-General of Commonwealth, Sir Emeka Anyaoku last week.”

According to him, “After the landmark peace agreement brokered to achieve peaceful conduct of the 2015 general elections, Fayose sponsored this advert of acrimony and discrimination from the purse of Ekiti State at about N50 million in the two national dailies. We, therefore, dissociate the people of Ekiti State from this advert.”