Ekiti 2022: Fayemi gives deadline for aspirants in government to resign
The race for who will succeed Gov. Kayode Fayemi as the next Ekiti State Governor is set to take full fledge.
In this light, the incumbent governor has fixed Dec. 18 as the deadline for governorship aspirants who are still in the state’s civil service to resign their positions.
The aspirant are those wishing to contest the primaries of the ruling All Progressives Congress where the party’s candidate will be picked for the 2022 governorship election.
Fayemi’s directive is contained in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Yinka Oyebode, on Wednesday in Ado-Ekiti.
The statement said that the APC in the state had fixed the governorship primaries for between Jan. 4 and Jan. 29, 2022.
The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) had fixed Ekiti State gubernatorial election for June 18, 2022.
Incumbent Fayemi of the APC, who is also the Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum, is term-limited and cannot seek re-election for a third term.
He first governed the state between May 2010 and 2014 was defeated by Ayo Fayose of the Peoples Democratic Party while seeking reelection for a second tenure.
The APC had earlier in its official notice for the governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun States fixed Nov.16 for the commencement of the sales of nomination forms for Ekiti and Nov.18 for Osun.
The notice was signed by the National Secretary of the Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Sen. John James Akpanudodehe.
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