Hope James
The Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Chief (Mrs) Christianah Monisade Afuye, has pledged to secure over 75% of total votes cast in the state to the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council that the party’s flag bearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu come 2023 general election.
Afuye, in a statement by her Special Assistant (Media), Victor Ogunje, described Tinubu as part of Ekiti, being an in-law, political leader and mentor to many great politicians of Ekiti’s extraction, who deserved to be compensated with votes in 2023.
Speaking today at the donation of cash and consumables to Ogoga-in-council and across 11 wards in Ikere Local Government to mark the Christmas and New year festivities, she empowered 110 Ikere indigenes with cash gift to lift them out of poverty and donated a sum of N1.5 million to party members and leaders across the wards.
“I know that Senator Bola Tinubu will visit our Kabiyesi anytime he is here in Ekiti State to campaign. I know Ekiti and Ikere in particular will declare block votes for him. We are not expecting less than 75% of votes for our great leader in Ekiti.
“We all know that Asiwaju is one leader that has the capacity to build and nurture. He did it in Lagos,let us allow him to do it for Nigeria
“Get your Permanent Voter Cards in readiness to vote Asiwaju in the coming presidential election, because he is our own in Ekiti.”
Saluting Ogoga of Ikere, Oba Adejimi Adu-Alagbado for attracting development to the town, Mrs Afuye, said; “Under your few years reign, Ikere had produced eight Senior Advocates of Nigeria and two women Professors.
“It was under your reign that I became the Deputy Governor as a woman and we had a university. We are increasing in leaps and bounds. We are happy about these and it is on the basis that I came to appreciate you.
“I will continue to support Ikere Ekiti. I am part of you. Governor Oyebanji and I will not let you down.”
Oba Adu-Alagbado, appealed to Ikere people to forget the past and think of the future for the town to be greater, warning against pull-him-down syndrome the way it was witnessed in the past.
