Coalition Of Ekiti Associations In Ondo Visits Jide Awe

..Drums Supports For BAO

By John Adeagbo

In their commitment to contribute their own quota to the victory of Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji (BAO), the flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the coming June 18th election, leaders of the Associations of Ekiti indigenes in Ondo State under an umbrella body called The Coalition paid a courtesy visit to High Chief Jide Awe, the Chairman of Contact and Mobilization Committee of BAO Campaign Organization in his office on Tuesday, May 10, 2022.

The visit, which was facilitated by the Senior Special Assistant (Diaspora Affairs) to Ekiti State Governor Femi Odere, was part of an initiative he called “Operation Ekiti Voters Harvest in Ondo and Osun” because of the significant number of Ekiti indigenes who are registered to vote in the state but living in these two border states.

In his speech to the August visitors Chief Jide Awe said he was under no illusion about their importance not only to the overall economic development of the state but to this particular electoral process, himself having been the immediate past state chairman of APC in the state.

Chief Awe said they should not see their task as only showing up to vote on the day of election but they should be in their respective wards days before the election in order to “win more souls” for the party and its candidate because “politics is a game of number.”

The Committee chairman said the country’s electoral process keeps improving as it’s now easy and possible to know if people actually voted because not only would their names be on the voters’ register but they must be accredited on the day of the election before they can exercise their franchise.

“We want to deal with people who are authentic voters and not people that gives outrageous figures that cannot be verified,” he declared.

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He said all eyes are on this election. Therefore, all hands must be on deck to ensure victory for APC and its candidate in this election because “this election is a one state election,” he said.

Comrade Olaniran Oni, the chairman of The Coalition and also president of Ekiti Parapo Association in Ondo State who spoke on behalf of the leaders of the various groups, expressed his appreciation to the Committee chairman for receiving them.

Comrade Oni said a comprehensive list of their members who had voted in the past for APC in every election has been compiled, and still being gathered, at the insistence of the SSA on Diaspora Affairs whom he described as very “consistent and assiduous” in his engagement of Ekiti associations in Ondo State as far back as 2020 for the purpose of this coming election. Comrade Oni showed Chief Awe some evidence to prove his point.

The Coalition chairman presented a petition to Femi Odere, the SSA on Diaspora Affairs to be given to higher authorities.

Odere said in his remarks that its ‘extremely important” that this government succeed itself not for succeeding sake but because of the “game changing and superlative accomplishments” of the Fayemi administration for the betterment of Ekiti state which only the party and its candidate can sustain and advance because “we have a man who understands what birthed these accomplishments in the first place.”

Associations whose leaders were represented at the meeting are Ekiti Parapo Association in Ondo State, Ekiti Grace Liberation Forum, Ekiti Men and Women Progressives, Ekiti Kete Women in Politics in Ondo State, Ekiti Trusted Group, Ekiti Unity Forum, Representative of Ekiti indigenes in Ore/Odigbo Local Government and Ekiti Women Progressives.

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