Outcome of  poll will  shock  Fayose, APC boasts
We will win Ekiti with performance-Fayose’ s deputy
From: WOLE BALOGUN, Ado-Ekiti
Deputy Governor of Ekiti, Olusola Kolapo,  All Progressives Congress(APC) Deputy National Chairman(South), Chief
Segun Oni and a chieftain of the party, Olusegun Osinkolu, in Saturday, exchanged verbal fireworks over which party would take over from incumbent governor Ayo Fayose in the July 14, 2018 poll in the state.
While the APC chieftains boasted that the outcome of the 2018 governorship election  will shock   Governor Fayose, Olusola, also an aspirant under PDP,  boasted that the governor’s outstanding performance would fetch him victory.
The APC chieftains boasted that the APC will use every legal and constitutional strategy to oust the governor and prevent his anointed
candidate and the  deputy governor, Prof Kolapo Olusola from taking
over the reign of power.
But puncturing the APC chieftains’ claims, Olusola said he remains the best candidate Ekiti will vote.
” With the huge developments and progress governor Fayose has brought to Ekiti, I can bet you that APC will remain I’m opposition till eternity in the state. They aren’t seeing not yet. By the time we shock them with performances, they will too ashamed to campaign for 2018, ” he said.
Oni and Osinkolu spoke in Ayede Ekiti in Oye Local Government Area of the State
during a Christmas get -together organised by Osinkolu for APC members
in the five local governments in Ekiti North Senatorial District, on
Saturday.
Stakeholders at the event, including the State Acting Chairman of the
party, Mrs Kemi Olaleye endorsed Osinkolu as the  senatorial candidate for Ekiti North in 2019.
Oni, a governorship aspirant, who is also from the district,  said the
APC must  be in control of power in Ekiti to complement the anti-corruption and rebranding policies of President Muhammadu
Buhari’s regime.
“Let me thank  Dr. Osinkolu for his mobilisation drives, but I want to
assure him and all of you  that by the time we will celebrate here
next year, our party will be in power”, he predicted.
Osinkolu said the disastrous outcome of the 2014 elections, where Dr.
Kayode Fayemi lost in all the 16 local government areas was an eye opener
to the party.
He said what the party needed at this time is unity and transparency
to overcome its challenges, describing Fayose as a good politician that  must be marched in strategies for APC to win in 2018.
“Governor Fayose understands politics and he played it better than us, but he is not unbeatable. With the promise by our national leaders
that the governorship primaries will be free and fair, I can boldly
say that the outcome of that election will definitely shock Governor Fayose and many Nigerians.
“I am a democrat, I don’t believe in rigging or resort to self help but I believe  if we put our house in order, use the right candidate
and strategies, we can easily win .
“That is why we must listen to what the electorates wanted  and not
what few leaders in the party want. We must listen to the teachers, market men and women , okada riders , farmers , civil servants , so
that we can come up with the right candidate that can win for us.
“It is not easy to play opposition in a State like Ekiti. We have tasted power and we are now in the opposition and we can conclude that it is better to be in power and this is the more reason why we have to be united and focused for that 2018 dream to be a reality”, he
advised.
Osinkolu appealed to Fayose to pay the salaries of workers and stop
subjecting Ekiti people to hardship.
“Ekiti is purely monolithic, hanging on civil service structure and once that area of economy is affected,  everybody will be affected.
“I plead with him not to divert the coming bailout. Let him use it for
our civil servants , teachers and local government workers for life to become  more comfortable for our people”, Osinkolu said.