The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had on Saturday declared Fayose, the PDP candidate, as winner of the governorship election in Ekiti.<\/p>\n
The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that Afenifere spokesman, Mr Yinka Odumakin, commenting on the outcome of the elections stated that the election of Fayose reflected the people\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Ekiti people have spoken and we congratulate the governor elect,\u201d Odumakin said. Odumakin, however, urged the governor-elect to utilise the opportunity of his re-election to correct any mistakes he may have made during his first term.<\/p>\n
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Afenifere spokesman, Yinka Odumakin<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHe should come to office with better maturity and make life better for the Ekiti people,\u201d the afenifere spokesman said.<\/p>\n He further urged Fayose to govern with the fear of God and justify the trust reposed in him by his people.<\/p>\n It was also gathered that the South West Secretary of the CNPP, Mr Austin Nnorom, urged Fayemi to accept defeat in the spirit of sportsmanship.<\/p>\n He urged the people of Osun to emulate the conduct of Ekiti people by making sure that their votes counted. In a related development, the Ndigbo Cultural Society of Nigeria (NCSN) also urged the governor-elect to ensure that the interests of the Ndigbo community in the state were taken into consideration.<\/p>\n \u00a0* Governor-elect in Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose<\/strong><\/p>\n The group, in a congratulatory message signed by its President, Chief Udoka Udeogaranya, said promoting a spirit of inclusion would enable non-indigenes contribute their quota to the development of the state.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the incumbent governor of Ekiti, Kayode Fayemi, in his concession speech on Sunday, 22 June, 2014, accepted the results of the election, saying that he wishes the new governor-elect good luck.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n\t\t\tIf you wish to know how this story develops, use\u00a0<\/span> Know more about this news? Update the info!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Pan Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, and the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, have released statements on the election of Mr. Ayo Fayose as the next governor of Ekiti State, western Nigeria.The …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"](\"http:\/\/img.naij.com\/n\/10\/e\/fayo.jpg\")
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