Ekiti 2018: APC youths reject Fayemi, Adeyeye as candidates

Youths in the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Ekiti State, under

the aegis of Ekiti APC Youths Congress (EAYC) have described reports

that Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi has

tipped the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples’ Democratic

Party (PDP), Prince Dayo Adeyeye, as his running mate if he emerges as

the APC governorship candidate in the 2018 election as unacceptable to

the generality of youths in the party.

The EAYC said in a press statement issued after its monthly meeting in

Ado-Ekiti on Thursday that the governorship candidate of the APC must

come from the Southern senatorial district of the State, and not the

North where Fayemi hails from.

According to the statement jointly signed by Mr Tope Ogunkuade and

Comrade Tunji Adeleye, EAYC Convener and Secretary respectively, the

APC was in need of quality people in the Southern Senatorial district

to fly its flag in the 2018 election and if not that Adeyeye is

already above 60 years, the youths will rather have him as the APC

governorship candidate and not running mate to Fayemi.

They said Adeyeye was even playing the role of opposition in the media

to the Ayo Fayose-led PDP government better than those parading

themselves as governorship aspirants in the APC, and as such, if not

for his age, he is better qualified to be APC candidate.

The youths said they remained resolute in their opposition to the

governorship aspiration of Segun Oni, Dr Fayemi, Senator Babafemi

Ojudu and others from the North and Central senatorial districts,

maintaining that it was the turn of the South to produce the governor

of the State.

The EAYC said; “Fayemi has been governor before and his failure as a

governor led to our party’s scandalous defeat in 2014 and 2015. The

fact that he was compensated with ministerial appointment as a reward

for the N1.5 billion he allegedly donated to President Buhari’s

campaign cannot be a license for him (Fayemi) to see the governorship

ticket of the APC as his property.

“Also, Segun Oni has been governor before. He is now 63 year old; he

should go home and rest.”

The APC youths noted that since the PDP has picked its candidate from

the South, APC must also pick its candidate from the same zone.