The All Progressives Congress (APC) has disclosed that it has not endorsed any candidate for the 2018 governorship election in Ekiti state.
Soni Idahagbon, the political aide to the national chairman of the party, John Odigie-Oyegun, made this known to newsmen on Sunday in Benin.
He said there was no truth in the claim that a recent visit to President Muhammadu Buhari by the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, in company of a former governor of Ekiti State, 2018, was an endorsement of Fayemi.
Oyegun said the party had not endorsed any candidate in Ekiti and that it would give all the contestants a level-playing ground, adding that whoever emerged winner in an open contest would be the party’s candidate.
He said, “Fayemi is a minister in the President’s cabinet and a former governor of Ekiti State; and Adebayo is also a former governor of the state. They could have gone to discuss development issues pertaining to the state,” the statement said.
“The APC is a democratic party, If I didn’t impose a candidate in my state, Edo, and in other states where primary elections had been conducted by our party; if the president had not imposed anybody in those states, why should we do such in Ekiti?” he asked.
