By Rotimi Ojomoyela

ADo-Ekiti—Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose on Sunday boasted that he will use the All Progressives Congress (APC), former Governor Segun Oni or anyone presented by the APC in the 2018 governorship election in the state to set electoral records.

Fayose, who is also the Chairman of the People Democratic Party Governors’ Forum, expressed confidence that 2018 would mark the third time he and his party would defeat the APC and its candidate in governorship elections in the state.

The governor, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu. Adelusi, in Ado-Ekiti yesterday, was reacting to comments made by Oni while declaring his intention to contest the 2018 poll that Fayose and the PDP were common enemies that he and the APC must tackle during the poll.

Ayodele Fayose

While advising Oni to keep his gunpowder dry until he is able to secure the APC’s ticket, Fayose noted that APC and whoever it presents for the election would be no match for the PDP and its candidate.

“Defeating the APC in governorship elections is not new to me and my party. We defeated them in 2003 and recorded a landslide victory against them in 2014 when their candidate could not  even win his local government. The 2014 victory was very remarkable because Oni was part of a gang-up of three former governors against me and my party and we won convincingly.

“Oni tried unsuccessfully to rubbish my administration’s giant strides in the state during my first tenure and the current one. It was during my first term that we dualised all the roads leading to Ado-Ekiti. We repositioned education and improved on the state’s performance in public examinations. We are number one in NECO and among the top in WAEC examinations.”

our administration has been able to forge ahead with these projects. It is only a leadership that is focused and know its onions that can place the welfare of majority of people over and above the welfare of minority.

“Oni and his day dreamers should be reminded that it was the prodigal APC-led administration of 201 0 to 2014 that plunged the state into financial crisis by leaving workers’ entitlements unpaid and borrowing to finance projects it never executed.