By Gbenga Sodeinde, Ado Ekiti
25 political parties operating in Ekiti State have adopted the candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in the July 14 governorship election, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.
The parties praised President Muhammadu Buhari for reducing corruption in the Nigerians society, saying this will help in stabilizing the country economically within the next few years.
Out of the parties , which have alignment with Conference of Nigerian Political Parties(CNPP), 12 of them have entered into a secret merger talks with the governorship candidate to ensure his victory in the election.
Addressing journalists in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday, KOWA Party State Chairman and spokesman of the group , Pastor Ade Ogunkolade , said they took the action after looking into Fayemi’s credentials, they described as superlative and sparkling.
Prominent among the parties were: Action Alliance(AA), Alliance for Democracy(AD), African Democratic Congress(ADC), National Conscience Party(NCP), All Progressives Congress(APC), Advanced Congress of Democrats(ACD), National Action Congress(NAC), among others.
Ogunkolade said Fayemi was the first governor to introduce free education up to the secondary school level in the state unlike now when kindergartens were being mandated to pay taxes even in private schools .
He said apart from declaring free education for pupils, that Fayemi also created avenues for employments of youths, such as the State Peace Corps, Volunteer Corps, Social Security scheme, among other policies that affected the lives of the masses positively.
He said: “After careful studies of all these achievements, the CNPP decided to give him all the necessary supports and strongly advise Ekiti people to come out on Saturday ad vote massively for Dr Fayemi to return Ekiti to the golden age of abundance.
“Ekiti people must not be deceived into another era of anarchy , tyranny oppression, indebtedness and deception”.
The CNPP condemned Governor Fayose for allegedly incurring a stagerring sum of N117 billion as debt as revealed by the Debt Management Office(DMO) without nothing to show for it as achievements.
“We appeal to the federal government to deploy more policemen to the State to prevent any rigging by the PDP-led government in the state”.
CNPP appealed to Ekiti electorate to cooperate wit security agencies to make the coming election a success.
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