A political support group, the BAO Grassroots Support for President Bola Tinubu, has said the successful conduct of the primary in the state has laid a solid foundation for the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Ekiti State governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, to win the forthcoming governorship in the state.
According to the group, Oyebanji’s emergence as a consensus candidate and the affirmation at the primary were historic, remarkable, and unprecedented in the state’s history.
It described the re-election ticket he won as a reward for his exemplary governance and purposeful leadership in the last three years.
Reacting to Oyebanji’s winning of the APC ticket for next year’s governorship poll in Ekiti, the group, in a statement on Wednesday, signed by its Coordinator, Prince Tunji Ogunlola, and the Director of Publicity, Mr Odunayo Ogunmola, urged all the supporters of the Governor and President Tinubu to work hard to achieve his re-election in June.
Hailing the peaceful process that produced the Ekiti Governor as the ruling party’s flag bearer, the group said his commendable performance had been complemented by his sterling character of loyalty to the party.
compassion for the people, humility, grassroots connection and appeal, implementation of populist and pro-people policies and implementation of quality projects across the length and breadth of the state.
The body said the APC primary, which was devoid of manipulation, tension, crisis, and violence that used to characterise such a process in the past in Ekiti, has set a template and has become a model for other political parties that are yet to conduct their own primary elections ahead of the main governorship poll scheduled for June 20 next year.
The support group opined that the 885 APC delegates who affirmed Oyebanji as the standard bearer were convinced that “it’s not yet time to change a winning team in Ekiti,” hence the decision to reward the Governor and his Deputy, Mrs Monisade Afuye, with another ticket to represent the party in the 2026 governorship election.
