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Ekiti South indigenes strategise to take over government house in 2018

Indigenes of Ekiti South Senatorial District of Ekiti State, South West Nigeria are making serious arrangements to ensure that one of their own takes charge at the Government house come 2018.

It was gathered, that politicians from across that divide are putting finishing torches to ensure that they come out with flying colors in the upcoming gubernatorial election coming up in the State, June next year.

Speaking on the plans, a governorship aspirant under the All Progressives Congress (APC) party, Dr. Makanjuola Akindele Owolabi stated that in the 21 years of Ekiti State’s existence, it has never had any son or daughter of Ekiti South Senatorial Zone as governor, despite having more local governments than any of the other zones.

Dr. Owolabi from Aisegba, Gboyin Local Government while addressing journalists at the weekend said that Ekiti South Senatorial Zone has six local governments while the others comprising of Ekiti North and Central zones have five each, noting that Ekiti Central has ruled the State on four different occasions while Ekiti North has also ruled on three different occasions.

Owolabi lamented that Ekiti South has never been at the saddle of power till date whereas non indigenes from other States have administered Ekiti State for three years and four months in total.

“Ekiti South Senatorial Zone is not an outcast. We are not helpless? We do not have to wait for power to be transferred to us. We have all it takes to rule Ekiti State through constitutional, electoral, judicious, justifiable, legal and fair means. We are being made to believe that power can only be bequeathed on us. Are we incompetent or incapable? Are we created to be perpetual spare tyres?” the APC chieftain stated.

According to Owolabi, under natural justice, Ekiti South should have been competing for its third or fourth chance in power by now, stressing that as at 2015 INEC voters’ register, Ekiti State has a total of 815,406 spread across the senatorial zones while Ekiti South has the highest number of Senatorial Zones with the second highest number of registered voters of 277,757 which constitutes 34.05percent.

He said that from the total of 416 delegates from all the Local Governments 26 executives from each Local Government, Ekiti Senatorial Zone has 156 delegates representing 37.5 percent.

He said “We have 29 State Excos and 1 national delegate. These delegates cannot take away the superiority of delegates from Ekiti South since the 29 State Excos will have a proportionate number from Ekiti South too. Ekiti South Senatorial Zone is therefore the ‘queen damsel’ of Ekiti politics most especially in deciding who clinches the governorship ticket to become the flag bearer of any political party at the primaries.”

According to Owolabi, Ekiti South Senatorial Zone with all its politically intimidating statistics and electoral strength both in determining a candidate and winner has not been fairly and justifiably carried along in the power play of Ekiti State in the past 21 years.

He therefore, pleaded, in the spirit of fairness, equity, justice and democratic principle of power rotation amongst confederating entities, that it is only fair and just for the sons and daughters of Ekiti South Senatorial zone to be maximally supported for the governorship of Ekiti State for the first time in 21 years.

“We have been brothers in progress. We have been supportive of our brothers in the North and Central Zones all these years. We are of the same origin. We are all descendants of Oduduwa who is well known for fairness and justice. What we have in abundance for our brothers from the other Senatorial Zones are love and trust. We look forward to the support of our brothers from North and Central just as we have always been doing to them these past twenty one (21) years,” Dr. Owolabi said.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo

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