Chaos erupts in Ekiti as APC Youths attack leaders who endorse Fayemi anointed Guber candidate

Chaos erupted at Ilawe Ekiti in the Ekiti South West Local Government Area on Sunday after some leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were alleged to endorse the candidacy of  Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji as the next candidate of the party in the forthcoming gubernatorial election.

The state governor, Kayode Fayemi and his wife, Bisi are alleged to back the aspiration of the former Secretary to the State Government, Biodun Oyebanji under the platform of the APC.

Though Oyebanji denied insinuation in some quarters that the state governor was sponsoring him to contest the next governorship election.

Ilawe Ekiti, the hometown of the two governorship aspirants in the party; Hon. Makinde Araoye and Hon Yemi Adaramodu, the current House of Representatives, and the zone that was yet to produce the governor of the state since the return of democracy in 1999.

Newsflash Nigeria gathered that chaos and violence marred the purposed endorsement of the former SSG Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji at Ilawe Ekiti on Sunday as angry APC youths and leaders disrupted and attacked some of the minority leaders that gathered at a Hall in Ilawe for the failed show.

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It was gathered that the APC members took out their anger on Honourable Yemisi Ayokunle, a member of the House of Assembly who ran away for the safety of her life as she was accused of nursing an ambition to be the Deputy Governorship candidate to Oyebanji instead of supporting the sons of the town for Governor.

Ayokunle was also accused of being insensitive to the needs of the people that voted for her during her House of Assembly election without any gains from her for them.

A party leader Honourable Parabola Oluyemo was heard accusing those that called the fiasco meeting why they would be adopting a candidate that had never visited the Local Government to declare his ambition.

Other ward chairmen also protested that two other prominent Ilawe indigenes were contesting in the same governorship race and the basis of the adoption of BAO was not acceptable.

The Local Government Chairman, Honourable Sikira Apolola’s appeal for calm fell on deaf ears as the youth were adamant the endorsement would not take place.

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