Ekiti Guber: I’ll secure 14 of 16 LGs for Saturday’s poll – Segun Oni boasts

Ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti State, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Segun Oni has said he is confident of victory in the forthcoming election.

Oni, while speaking on Channels TV political show, Politics Today, Thursday stated that he would win in no fewer than 14 out of the total 16 local governments in the State.

Newsflash Nigeria understands that Oni was among the 16 candidates in the race for the Ekiti governorship position.

It also noted that four National Commissioners and eight Resident Electoral Commissioners had been deployed to ensure the conduct of a credible election, adding 749,065 voters representing 76 per cent have collected their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs).

There are 177 wards and 2,244 polling units in total.

While many see the Ekiti governorship elections as a contest among the present and past governors of the state, slugging it out among one another in a superiority contest, others say it is an attempt by godfathers to impose godsons and battle with fresh hands to prevent such.

The governors – incumbent Dr Kayode Fayemi and the pioneer governor of Ekiti State, Niyi Adebayo, are leading the campaign for the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Biodun Oyebanji.

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Also, a former governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, is the face of the campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Bisi Kolawole, just as the standard-bearer of the Social Democratic Party, Chief Segun Oni, is himself a former governor.

Oni was governor of the state between 2007 and 2010.

The full list of candidates are:

1. Reuben Famuyibo – Accord
2. Moses Olajide – African Action Congress (AAC)
3. Wole Oluyede – African Democratic Congress (ADC)
4. Kemi Elebute-Halle – Action Democratic Party (ADP)
5. Biodun Oyebanji – All Progressives Congress (APC)
6. Olufemi Obidoyin – All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)
7. Debo Ajayi – Young Progressives Party (YPP)
8. Peter Adegbenro – Allied Peoples Movement (APM)
9. Segun Oni – Social Democratic Party (SDP)
10. Bisi Kolawole – Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
11. Modupe Olatawura – All People’s Party (APP)
12. Daramola Roland – Labour Party (LP)
13. Oladosu Fatomilola – New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP)
14. Tope Iyaniwura – National Rescue Movement (NRM)
15. Olaniyi Agboola – People’s Redemption Party (PRP)
16. Kolade Akinyemi, Zenith Labour Party (ZLP)

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