{"id":61662,"date":"2018-04-12T15:53:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T14:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=61662"},"modified":"2018-04-12T15:53:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T14:53:58","slug":"ekiti-guber-fayemi-makes-public-declaration-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/ekiti-guber-fayemi-makes-public-declaration-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"EKITI GUBER: FAYEMI MAKES PUBLIC DECLARATION ON SATURDAY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Immediate past Governor of Ekiti State and Minister of Mines and Steel<\/div>\n
Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has written national and state leadership<\/div>\n
of the All Progressives Party (APC), elders of the party, prominent<\/div>\n
citizens and\u00a0 traditional rulers in the state notifying them of his<\/div>\n
intention to run for the July 14 governorship election in the state.<\/div>\n
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Dr Fayemi, in the letter which he personally signed also disclosed that<\/div>\n
his public declaration for the gubernatorial\u00a0 contest would come up at a<\/div>\n
rally in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday.<\/div>\n
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Some prominent names to which the letters were addressed include the<\/div>\n
National Chairman of APC , Chief John Oyegun, National Leader of the<\/div>\n
party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Interim National Chairman of the<\/div>\n
party, Chief Bisi Akande, all traditional rulers in Ekiti State, his<\/div>\n
colleagues in the Federal Executive Council (FEC); former and serving<\/div>\n
governors elected on APC platform, as well as prominent sons and daughters<\/div>\n
of Ekiti.<\/div>\n
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The Minister had on April 2 hinted on his plan to run for the party\u2019s<\/div>\n
ticket during the quarterly meeting of the Ekiti APC leaders at his Isan<\/div>\n
Ekiti country home.<\/div>\n
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Ahead of the Saturday\u2019s public declaration, the Minister\u00a0 had also<\/div>\n
undertaken a tour of the 16 local government areas of the state, where he<\/div>\n
held meetings with local government and ward executives as well as elders<\/div>\n
of the party.<\/div>\n
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The tour which kicked off\u00a0 Monday, in Efon Local Government, ended in Oye<\/div>\n
Local Government Thursday.<\/div>\n
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Fayemi in the letter said his decision to join the governorship race was<\/div>\n
informed by the need to join other patriots to rescue the state from the<\/div>\n
grip of the current insensitive and incompetent PDP-led administration,<\/div>\n
that has plunged the state and its people into unimaginable misery and<\/div>\n
poverty.<\/div>\n
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\u201cMy mission in public life which has always cantered on transforming the<\/div>\n
material conditions of our people has always revolved around these three<\/div>\n
imperatives \u2013 breaking the yoke of ignorance that keeps our people down;<\/div>\n
liberating them from ill-health and other limitations that restrain them<\/div>\n
from achieving their potentials; and breaking the stranglehold of poverty<\/div>\n
which keeps people from living full creative lives.<\/div>\n
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\u201cIn practical and policy terms, this for me has always meant prioritizing<\/div>\n
social investments in education, healthcare and other social interventions<\/div>\n
that reduce the cost of living, while raising the quality of life.<\/div>\n
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\u201cPublic office is too serious to be left to charlatans and when men and<\/div>\n
women of good conscience that are committed to the ideals of social<\/div>\n
justice and the common good turn away from politics, we pave way for<\/div>\n
unprincipled opportunists to take power.<\/div>\n
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\u201cMy convictions about how much more is possible in Ekiti stem not from any<\/div>\n
sense of entitlement but from a sense of service, of obligation and from<\/div>\n
my belief that posterity has positioned us for such a time as this.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThere is much that we have to repair and redress in Ekiti before we can<\/div>\n
go forward.\u201d, He added.<\/div>\n
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The Minister\u2019s central message at the various meetings during the tour<\/div>\n
dwelled on the need for all APC members to unite in order to successfully<\/div>\n
confront and defeat the incumbent PDP government in the state, come July<\/div>\n
14th.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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