Ekiti APC: Election committee debunks claim of foul play in guber primary

The Ekiti State All Progressives Congress has debunked any claim of foul play in the governorship primary election in the state held today.

Seven of the governorship aspirants on the APC platform had withdrawn from the race on Thursday, alleging that the election committee was filled with loyalists of the state’s incumbent governor,  Kayode Fayemi, in an bid to impose former Secretary to the State Government, Biodun Oyebanji, as the Ekiti APC governorship candidate.

However, the Secretary of Ekiti State APC Governorship Primary Election Committee, Victor Olabimtan, said in a statement on Thursday that the party primary will hold as scheduled in all the 177 wards of Ekiti.

Titled ‘Ekiti State APC Primary Election Is Not Postponed’ the statement partly read, “The Ekiti State APC governorship primary election Committee wishes to assure the general public that a level playing field that will guarantee fairness, openness and transparency has been adopted by the Committee.

“It is an incontrovertible fact that every member of the appointed Electoral Officers for today’s primary election is a bonafide member of Ekiti State APC.

“You will recall that during the stakeholders’ meeting between the Committee, aspirants and others yesterday, this issue was raised and exhaustively discussed, and to reinforce confidence in the process, it was agreed that each aspirant should nominate 20 people each to be part of the process. All the aspirants took advantage of this window of opportunity and submitted the list of their nominated electoral officers.

“All the submitted lists have been added to the existing arrangement, assigned into various wards and local governments. They have all been incorporated.

“We hereby call on all well-meaning APC members in Ekiti State to go to their respective wards to fully exercise their voting right without fear or intimidation. The adopted option A4 is the most transparent form of election”.