2019: Senate Minority Leader, Olujimi, Gets PDP Return Ticket

The Senate Minority Leader, Senator Biodun Olujimi, has secured the Peoples Democratic Party return ticket to contest the 2019 senatorial
election in Ekiti State.

Olujimi who is currently representing Ekiti South Senatorial District at the Upper Chambers of the National Assembly was given the return ticket by affirmation through party delegates that assembled at the district headquarters in Ikere Ekiti on Tuesday.

The National Working Committee of the parry, which was busy conducting elections in the central and North senatorial districts were represented at the primary by the party’s State Woman Leader, Mrs Yemisi Afolabi.

The Minority Leader was given the nod to recontest through voice votes by over 1,500 drawn from Ikere, Ekiti East , Gbonyin, Ise/Orun, Emure and Ekiti South West local governments, which were components of the zone.

With his emergence, Olujimi will now square it up with the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Minister of Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye.

Adeyeye had been unanimously adopted by the party leaders across the district to fly the party’s flag without opposition.

Meanwhile, some aspirants vying for National Assembly positions under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) for the 2019 general election in Ekiti, on Tuesday protested the decision of the State Working Committee (SWC) of the party to use indirect method to conduct their primaries, against the directive of the National Working Committee.

The aspirants and their supporters, who besieged the state secretariat of the party around 10.25 am, accused the Deputy National Chairman (South), Chief Niyi Adebayo, and Governor-elect, Dr Kayode Fayemi of trying to scheme them out of contest to pave way for their cronies.