Ekiti 2018: Voters might bigger than incumbency, federal might ----Adewale

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*Otunba Segun Adewale,  Ekiti ADP guber candidate

(Nigeria) A  governorship candidate in the forthcoming July 14 governorship election in Ekiti State, Otunba Segun Adewale has renewed his confidence in the electorates to reject attempt to foist leadership on the state, saying he is not not worried over the bragadociousness of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and All Progressives Congress, APC candidates.
Adewale, popularly called OsaPraPra, said this while fielding questions from a presenter on a current affair programme in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday, declaring that "voters might is bigger than federal might and the scheming of the incumbent government.
The ADP candidate who said he has toured the 16 local government in Ekiti in campaigning to clinch the top seat in the state, lamented the disturbing rate of poverty among citizens, which he promised to curtail if elected as governor.
Portraying the ruling government as a den of lies and media propaganda, Adewale said though the Ayodele Fayose-led government has been misleading people outside the state with feign pictures, the reality in the state is that Ekiti people have rejected continuity of anguish and poverty.
The successful entrepreneur added that he is unmoved by the names being paraded by APC, noting that attempt to intimidate the people of the state with federal might will fail just as it has failed on many occasions in parts of Nigeria because Ekiti people will not surrender their electoral power no matter the threat.
Apparently optimistic of winning the election, Adewale pointed out that his party ADP, remains the only clean and ideal party that people of the state considers the right alternative to salvage the state from a total collapse.
Analysing the candidate of the PDP, Prof. Kolapo Olusola and APC, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the ADP candidate observed that while Olusola will be accountable to his promoter, Governor Fayose, his rival, Fayemi will be answerable only to President Muhammadu Buhari and not the suffering masses of the state.
When asked on his rising popularity among electorates in the state, Adewale attributed it to his good campaign and manifesto, adding that his campaign will kickoff fully from Thursday.
He hinted that his campaign will put the entire state on standstill during the official flag-off, noting that unlike PDP and APC who spent heavily to mobilise people to their campaigns, the people of Ekiti would rally round him as they eagerly yearns for him as their next governor.
Adewale, however, urged Ekiti people to come out enmasses on the election day to vote against poverty, continuity of deceit orchestrated by PDP and in the same vein vote against Kayode Fayemi of APC, calling on them to vote overwhelmingly for his party ADP.

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