The All Progressives Congress, APC, Thursday, said it will challenge the results of last Saturday’s governorship elections in Ekiti State in court.

In a communique, after the party’s inaugural National Working Committee meeting held at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja and read by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said ; ” in order to prevent a recurrence of what happened in Ekiti, especially the militarization of the process, the harassment and intimidation of citizens, especially those in opposition, my party has decided to challenge in court some of these constitutional breaches and will also encourage our leaders and supporters, who were arrested, harassed and intimidated to seek the enforcement of their constitutionally-guaranteed fundamental rights that were recklessly abridged by the security agencies.”

ON Friday, June 13, 2014, a grand reception was held for the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Diamond Bank Plc, Dr Alex Otti, by the umbrella body of traditional rulers in his native Ngwa land, Abia State. Alex is widely believed to be warming up to contest the Abia governorship election on the platform of the PDP come 2015.

The Labour Party, LP, gubernatorial candidate in last Saturday’s election in Ekiti State, Mr. Opeyemi Bamidele has raised a poser over the decision of Governor Kayode Fayemi to create more councils few months to the expiration of his tenure, saying it was a ploy to create problem for the governor-elect, Mr Ayodele Fayose.

The Ayo Fayose Campaign Organisation, AFCO, has described the Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola as “one of the dangers to democracy in Nigeria” going by his utterances, especially his call on APC supporters to attack security agents with charms and amulets during the August 9, 2014 governorship election in the State.

A member of the Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Bode Olajumoke has described Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi as a rare politician that had raised the bar in electoral contest in the country.

Governor Kayode Fayemi’s concession of victory to his opponent, Ayodele Fayose has continued to draw commendations from far and wide and even from normally hostile quarters. One of such normally hostile forces, Chief Olabode George, the erstwhile deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP asserts that Fayemi has made a gesture that history will not easily forget.

THE most important thing about last Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti State was the equanimity, grace, humility with which Dr. Kayode Fayemi conceded victory. Such moments are rare in our politics and made all the difference to how both sides received the result.

ADO EKITI—Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi and governor-elect, Mr. Ayodele Fayose met in the Governor’s Office in Ado Ekiti yesterday and promised to forge a unity among themselves and the people of the state.

ADO EKITI—Police have warned those who may want to foment trouble after the gubernatorial election in Ekiti state to have a rethink, as the head of the team deployed to Ekiti State for the election, Mr Bala Magaji Nassarawa has said that his men and officers are not in a hurry to leave the state.

OSOGBO—With last Saturday’s victory of Mr Ayo Fayose of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in the Ekiti state governorship election, Osun state chapter of the party has advised governor Rauf Aregbesola to start preparing to quit the Abere government house as the party would defeat him in the August 9 governorship election in the state.

Senators and former senators, yesterday, poured commendations on Governor Kayode Fayemi for conceding defeat in last weekend’s governorship election and also joining in the outflow of encomiums on Fayemi.

Dr Kayode Fayemi, out-going governor of Ekiti State, yesterday reiterated that he would not challenge the result of last Saturday’s governorship election in the state because he is “not desperate to remain in office,” even as commendations poured in on him from far and wide yesterday.

The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), an NGO, on Monday said that the just-concluded governorship election in Ekiti State had raise the bar for Osun and 2015 general elections in the country.

THE annoying thing for many associates of supporters of Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the outgoing governor of Ekiti State was that the sweeping defeat of their man in last weekend’s gubernatorial election was under a free and fair election.

In all 16 local government areas, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Mr. Ayo Fayose triumphed, doing so even in the acclaimed strongholds of the incumbent’s All Progressives Congress, APC.

Ekiti State Governor-elect, Mr. Peter Ayodele Fayose, yesterday, said he won the election because of his past performance and catering for the welfare of the people.
Fayose spoke to reporters on how he took Ekiti state from the incumbent governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.