36 APC chieftains jostle for Ekiti state governor's seat in 2018 (SEE FULL LIST)

The second term of Ayodele Fayose as Ekiti
state governor ends in October 2018
Not less than 36 chieftains of the Ekiti
state chapter of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) are jostling for the
party’s ticket for the 2018 governorship
election.
According to New Telegraoh, some of
the aspirants have not officially
declared their interest, but majority of
them are intensifying their efforts in
wooing party leaders both in the state
and the centre to clinch the APC ticket.

It was gathered that the second term
of the incumbent state governor,
Ayodele Fayose, elapses in October next
year.
Among those jostling for the APC ticket
include:
1. Minister of Solid Minerals and
Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi
2. APC Deputy National Chairman
(South), Engr. Segun Oni
3. Femi Ojudu; Special Adviser to the
President on Political Matters
4. Gbenga Aluko
5. Former Speaker of the state House of
Assembly, Hon. Olufemi Bamisile.
6. Bimbo Daramola
7. Opeyemi Bamidele
8. Bamidele Faparusi; former Chairman
of Ekiti State Hospitals Management
Board
9. Dr. Adebayo Orire; 2007
governorship candidate of the defunct
All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP)
10. Otunba Yinka Akerele; former
Executive Secretary, National Health
Insurance Scheme (NHIS)
11. Dr. Femi Thomas; former Chief of
Staff to ex-Governor Fayemi
12. Mr. Yemi Adaramodu; former House
of Assembly Majority Leader
13. Hon. Funminiyi Afuye; Australia-
based medical practitioner
14. Dr. Wole Oluyede and former House
of Assembly member
15. Hon. Bayo Idowu.
16. Chief Sesan Fatoba
17. Chief Bisi Aloba
18. Chief Dele Okeya; former Special
Assistant on Domestic Affairs to ex-
President Olusegun Obasanjo
19. Mr. Bodunde Adeyanju; former Ekiti
South senatorial aspirant
20. Mr. Kayode Adaramodu; an
industrialist
21. Mr. Olajide Akinyemi Jnr; a retired
officer of the United States Army
22. Captain Sunday Adebomi; former
Special Assistant on Forestry
23. Mr. Bayo Babalotin; son of former
governor of old Ondo State
24. Mr. Muyiwa Olumilua
25. Mr. Oladipupo Ogunkoyode
There is apprehension among the APC
leadership over the growing list of
aspirants, and most especially the
profile of the individuals involved.
Some members of the party in the state,
who spoke with New Telegraph, said
that it would have been easy for the APC
to harmonise and arrive at a consensus
candidate.
Fayose, who reacted to the growing list
of APC governorship aspirants through
his Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media, Lere
Olayinka, said the PDP is not bothered
as the APC lacks presence in the state.
He said: “The question is: Is APC still in
Ekiti State? The answer is no. They can
have 1,000 aspirants, but we are not
bothered because the party does not
exist here, though it is public knowledge
that one of the aspirants already has the
ticket in his pocket. “In 2014, the PDP
defeated an incumbent governor, who
worked with two former governors. We
will do that again in 2018 in a free and
fair contest.”
Meanwhile, the minister of mines and
steel development, Dr Kayode Fayemi,
has said Governor Ayodele Fayose will
get his due reward at the appropriate
time.
The minister made the statement in
reaction to recent allegations made
against him by Fayose.

Fayemi, the immediate past governor of
Ekiti state, was succeeded by Fayose,
who recently claimed the minister was
working with some justices of the
Supreme Court to sack him via a review
of the ruling of the apex court which
upheld his election as governor of the
state.