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.