From: WOLE BALOGUN, Ado-Ekiti

Lawmakers of Ekiti State House of Assembly have begun a mass movement to support the political agenda and continue the legacy of Governor Ayo Fayose beyond 2018 when he would be leaving office.

Tagged: “Oshoko Mass Movement’ (OMM), the pro-Fayose political movement, according to its Director of Media and Publicity and serving lawmaker, Hon. Akinleye Adedayo (aka Dayo Maxima) says the movement is “All about sustaining the Ayo Fayose legacy beyond 2018 and particularly to tell the whole world and in particular, Ekiti people, that wherever Fayose is going in 2018, we are going with him. Whoever Ayo Fayose and our people picks in 2018 for the governorship race, we will support.”

Adeleye, who spoke to journalists in Ikere-Ekiti, on Thursday, during the launch of Ekiti  South-West Senatorial district of OMM, maintained that strategies have been put in place to not only rally mass support for the governor, but also to ensure that the votes of all supporters count in 2018 guber poll in the state.

Adeleye also said that to ensure this, coordinators at the local, grassroots level and state level have been assigned for the movement.

“One of the strategies is that we are spreading the tentacles of this movement in all the tiers of government in the state, the local government and states, wards and districts and also the polling units. “We are having coordinators for all these areas. All the coordinators and our members would be meeting regularly to discuss and strategize for our candidates.

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” The coordinators at the local levels would be meeting weekly to get numbers of people in their polling units and register them so that in all the local governments we must be able to say that we have a certain number of electorates voting in each of the wards. We will also get to know the number of people voting for our party in each wards through the polling units coordinators.

” We have today gathered the names and contacts of our people who are interested in this movement and we will put all these information in the platform of the movement on Whatssap and other social media platforms. Everyone who loves Ayo Fayose and who wants his legacy to continue can subscribe to the social media platform, entry is free.

” Another major objective of having the OMM platform is to gather all our people and bring them together. The court case rocking the party leadership of the PDP in Ekiti cannot in anyway affect our chances of winning the guber election of 2018 because many of us who are part of this movement are lovers of Fayose and we cut across political parties in the state.

“We just love Fayose and want a continuation of his legacy in the state. That is why wherever Fayose goes, we are following him, if Fayose leaves PDP today, we will follow him. But this should not be mistaken as an exit plan for Fayose but we are telling the whole world that wherever Fayose goes anytime from now we will follow him en-mass.

” This is the first district and it serves as a litmus test. We are moving to the central and northern district after which we will then do the state inauguration of the movement.

The turn-out today has been very impressive. Honourable Wale Ayeni of Ikere Constituency is the state secretary. Hon. Akinyemi Olatunji is the state chairman of OMM.