Ekiti 2022: Daramola emerges Labour Party consensus candidate
The Labour Party in Ekiti has picked Olugbenga Daramola as its consensus candidate for the June 18 gubernatorial election in the state.
At a ceremony held at its situation office in Ado-Ekiti, the chairman of the party, Odunayo Okunade, presented Mr Daramola with the party flag.
Mr Okunade declared that the party will provide an alternative to the alleged misrule of the PDP and APC.
“The time is now to take our future in our hands. We should say enough is enough to foreigners and liberate Ekiti from their hands, saying it is time for the home-based to govern their own state by themselves,” he said.
The party chairman noted that the time has come to resist any form of rigging in the state.
“It is unfortunate that those who took over the affairs of the state since the return of democracy are not projecting the state well and in order to put the state right on track, the Labour Party has picked a home-based to free Ekiti from the hands of the foreigners.”
In his acceptance speech, Mr Daramola thanked members of the party, drawn from the 16 LGAs of Ekiti, for their wise decision in presenting him as the consensus candidate of the party in the state.
The event was witnessed by representatives of the Independent National Electoral Commission, security agencies, party members in the South-West, among other well-wishers.
(NAN)
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