A governorship aspirant on the platform of the APC in Ekiti State, Michael Bamidele, has denied stepping down for the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, ahead of the party’s primary slated for Saturday, May 5.
He described the rumour as laughable, saying there was no reason for him to quit when he was convinced that he had a good chance of clinching the party’s ticket.
Bamidele stated that he was confident that the APC national leaders would conduct a free, fair and credible primary that would produce a candidate capable of winning the election.
According to him, with the assurances given by the national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the South West bigwigs at a meeting held in Lagos, last Friday, he had no reason to doubt the credibility of the process leading to the primary.
Speaking in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, while meeting with APC delegates drawn from the 13 wards in Ado Ekiti Local Government, in continuation of his effort to solicit the support of the party’s executives at the ward level, Bamidele said, “It will be tragic for the APC to lose after passing through all these stresses. So we must do the right thing for us to get the right result.”
“I have traversed all the 177 wards and I am now visiting all the 16 local governments in search for delegates. At 54, if I want to step down, I won’t waste time, energy and money moving around. I will not even pretend in telling the public about it,” he concluded.
