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Ekiti Former SSG, Speaker, Others Emerge Pick
PDP Reps Ticket
by Lere Olayinka
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Though delegates and aspirants
had besieged the voting centres as early as 7.00am, voting could not
be concluded until about 6.00 pm due to the late arrival of the
officials from the party’s national secretariat. |
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Immediate past Secretary to the Ekiti State Government, Ambassador
Dare Bejide, former Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon.
Olufemi Bamisile and a former lecturer at the State owned University
of Ado-Ekiti (UNAD), Mr. T.K.O. Aluko were among the six candidates
elected as candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the
2011 House of Representatives election today. |
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Bejide, a one-time Nigerian Ambassador to
Canada emerged as the candidate for Ekiti South Federal
Constituency I, while Bamisile and Aluko picked the South
Constituency II and Central Constituency I respectively.
Others, who emerged victorious in the election conducted in the
six Federal Constituencies were former Chairman, Ekiti State House
of Assembly Service Commission, Akogun Bunmi Ogunleye (Ekiti North
Constituency I), former Director General of the State Micro Credit
Agency, Mr. Cyril Fasuyi (Ekiti North Constituency I) and Hon.
Kehinde Odebunmi, who is presently representing Ekiti Central
Constituency I. Of the six incumbent House of Representatives
members in the State, only Odebunmi secured the PDP nod to return
to the House with 348 votes to defeat six other contenders.

Hon. Kehinde Odebunmi
Though delegates and aspirants had besieged the voting centres as
early as 7.00am, voting could not be concluded until about 6.00 pm
due to the late arrival of the officials from the party’s national
secretariat.
Reacting to the conduct of the primary election, one of the
winners, Cyril Fasuyi said he was elated not because he won but
because of the peaceful and transparent manner the election was
conducted. “With what happened here today, it is clear that PDP is
already setting the pace on conduct of credible elections in this
country. Though we in the PDP in Ekiti State have always been
peaceful and civil in our approach to elections, and with the
peaceful conduct of both the House of Assembly and House of Reps
primary elections, the public must have seen we are party of
matured and civilised people. Also speaking with our reporter in
Ido-Ekiti, one of the PDP officials, Chief Kunle Ogunlade said he
was proud with the conduct of the election, saying; “We are
showing to the public that we are capable to conducting a free and
fair election and we are expecting INEC to take a cue from us by
giving Nigerians a free, fair and credible elections.”
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