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Ahead of party primaries for the Ekiti State governorship election, Dr Funso Ayeni, has picked the nomination form to seek the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party.
A coalition of Ekiti Continental diaspora across the United Kingdom, Canada, Asia Major, Australia and the United States of America says it has risen up to offer its support for the aspirant.
The group noted the present political challenges across all the political parties in Ekiti state.
It says the crises across the parties have suffocated good governance and community developments across the state, and hence made deliveries of the dividends of democracy a mirage.
At a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, the spokesman of the Continental Coalition of Ekiti in Diaspora (COCOED), Mr Ayodele Daini of Canada branch, stated that it was the quest of all the members of COCOED acros the major continents of the world not to fold their arms and allow Ekiti State to continue to rot in crises until completely swallowed up.
He said that its intervention followed a decision reached in its last emergency virtual meeting.
The intervention, he said was to put an end to the confusion and introduce sanity to the policy.
”Based on this decision and after a very long hours of diligent assessment of the current political situation in Ekiti and the various dramatis personae, the continental group zeroed in on Prince Dr Funso Ayeni, a very formidable, clean and experienced, well educated, yet unbiased political figure as the right man to rescue Ekiti from all these daily confusions,” he said.
”It was this decision in consultation with our various political leaders at home in Ekiti that made the group to nominate Mr Ayodele Daini to travel down from Canada to Abuja and purchase the PDP governorship nomination form for Prince Dr Funso Ayeni and pleaded to all leaders of thought and traditional rulers in Ekiti state to prevail on him to run and rescue the state from the present political decadence.”
Party primaries according to INEC time table are expectable to commence on the 20th of October and close on 10th of November this year.
The governorship election has been fixed for June 27, 2026.
