< img src="https://eyewitness101.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/fayemi-promised-ekiti-south-govnorship-ticket-in-2018-apc-chieftain-fapurasi-claims.jpg"class ="ff-og-image-inserted" > A brand-new twist has actually been added to the agitation over zoning of governorship ticket to the Ekiti South Senatorial District in the All Progressives Congress, as a candidate, Bamidele Faparusi claimed that Governor Kayode Fayemi, guaranteed to enable to the zone during his reelection in

2018. Faparusi, who was the Deputy Director-General, Kayode Fayemi Campaign Council in 2018, said political leaders from the zone campaigned with the mantra that Fayemi would give power to the South in 2022, which he stated did the magic for APC in the district.

Faparusi spoke in Ode Ekiti on Monday while attending to APC ward and city government executives in Ayekire Local Government and Gbonyin Local Council Development Areas.

The previous House of Representatives member, stated: “We utilized South for 2022 Governorship to project for Governor Fayemi in 2018. It is our votes in the south that won for APC, but the guv after his swearing-in concentrated all major appointments in the Central, consisting of Ado Ekiti, where APC lost.

“The South is being hugely cheated in APC. The South even voted against their own boy, Prof. Kolapo Olusola, who was the PDP prospect in 2018, since of Governor Fayemi. We informed our individuals that after four years, it will be our rely on produce the guv.

“PDP had when picked someone as governorship candidate in the South, but the APC had an ingrained hatred for the South. The party had actually never picked any governor or Deputy Governor from that zone since 1999. The connection that we want in APC can only be possible if the party zones its ticket to the South, no other choice.

“The APC comes from everybody. We can’t afford to be cheated in a celebration that we all struggled to build. We can’t allow anybody to develop 2nd class residents in APC.

“We compromised for our party and even voted against our own boy in the district. On this gentleman’s agreement we stand, we need to honour it. It will be good for the polity, stabilise Ekiti and engender development and unity in our dear state”.

Faparusi insisted that the zone will not accept the Deputy governorship position from the APC, explaining dangling of such deals as drinking from a poisoned chalice. It is an insult to individuals of the location.

“What we desire is governorship. We are not going to trade this for anything. The main is coming, let us elect our own kid. Do not desert candidates from the South due to the fact that of money. Money will be spent, but your relationship with individuals will remain, that is what you should think about.

“Some people who have the cash from the South to buy kinds even made sacrifices by not objecting to, so we have just 3 aspirants from our district now. Don’t be deceived by these desperate power applicants. Anything except governorship for the South, we will resist it at all cost”.

The Chairman of the State Teaching Service Commission, Mr. Babatunde Abegunde, urged the aspirants from the district to close ranks and collaborate to have a likelihood of clinching the ticket.

In his submission, the APC Chairman in Ayekire Local Government, Mr. Tokunbo Akinyeye, stated having the governor from the South would be of incredible benefit to the people of the area.

“The party is not requiring executives of APC to choose anyone. That we have candidates from the South revealed that we are blessed. We can’t abandon our own sons for somebody from another zone”.