The Guardian (Nigeria)

Ekiti APC holds rally for Buhari’s second term

- From Ayodele Afolabi, Ado-ekiti

THE All Progressiv­es Congress, APC, in Ekiti State yesterday declared its support for the reelection bid of President Muhammadu Buhari, saying he deserves a second term because of his achievemen­ts in office.

The party, according to the Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosu­n, held the rally ahead of the impending governorsh­ip election in the state.

Speaking at the gathering, Acting Chairman of the party, Mrs Kemi Olaleye said the president was misunderst­ood by those opposing his reelection bid adding, “Today, more than 10,000 Ekiti indigenes across party lines are benefiting from NPower, the Federal Housing Estates and Federal Secretaria­t are under constructi­on and many of our people were appointed into federal boards, commission­s and parastatal­s.

“The school feeding programme is also a landmark achievemen­t. Very soon, this party will release the achievemen­ts of President Buhari in Ekiti, which governor Fayose has claimed as his own achievemen­ts to the public.”

On the massacre in Benue, Olaleye sympathize­d with the Tivs over the losses suffered, indicting the opposition of being behind the killings to discredit Buhari’s government.

She also upbraided Fayose for issuing a white paper banning Dr Kayode Fayemi from holding political office for ten years for alleged corruption, saying, “the former governor is a leader in Nigeria and the governor was only joking with such illegal pronouncem­ent.”

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