EKITI GOVERNORSHIP RACE: Podium Collapses As Fayose Campaigns In Segun Oni’s Home Town
Some of those on the podium were Fayose; his wife, Feyisetan; ex-Deputy Governor; Abiodun Olujimi; Senator Teslim Folarin; Senator Ayo Arise; a former House of Representatives member, Mr. Duro Faseyi and Prince Dayo Adeyeye.
The wooden podium caved in as Fayose was addressing the crowd leading to serious fall.
The immediate past Governor of Ekiti State, Segun Oni, who dumped the PDP and joined the APC and announced his decision to work with Governor Kayode Fayemi of APC this week, is an indigene of the same town, Ifaki-Ekiti.
The collapse of the podium and the fall of the dignitaries led to a
temporary stoppage of activities. When calm was restored, Fayose boasted
that he would win the governorship election which holds on June 21.
He said that he had the support of the people of the state and that they had assured him of their support. Fayose said that he defeated Governor Niyi Adebayo of the Alliance for Democracy in 2003, adding that he would defeat Adebayo’s godson - Fayemi.
He said, “Defeating Fayemi will be very simple. I defeated, conquered and subdued Adebayo, who was Fayemi’s godfather in 2003. Defeating Fayemi who is his godson will be simple. God has given me the power to defeat incumbent governors. I did not borrow a dime in 2003 when I was in government. I even left a sum of N10.4bn behind when I left in 2006," he claimed.
