{"id":920295,"date":"2022-01-28T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/28\/you-cant-win-ekiti-governorship-poll-pdp-groups-tackle-ayu-over-primary-election\/"},"modified":"2022-01-28T12:39:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T12:39:00","slug":"you-cant-win-ekiti-governorship-poll-pdp-groups-tackle-ayu-over-primary-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/28\/you-cant-win-ekiti-governorship-poll-pdp-groups-tackle-ayu-over-primary-election\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You Can\u2019t Win Ekiti Governorship Poll\u2019 \u2014 PDP Groups Tackle Ayu Over Primary Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_835449\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-835449\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-835449 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-10-at-5.08.05-PM-600x348.jpeg\" alt=\"\u2018You Can\u2019t Win Ekiti Governorship Poll\u2019 \u2014 PDP Groups Tackle Ayu Over Primary Election\" width=\"600\" height=\"348\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-835449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iyorchia Ayu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two factions inside the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Ekiti Political Intervention Coalition and Concerned Delegates and Party Members, have expressed dissatisfaction with the party\u2019s primary election in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Former Ekiti PDP chairman Bisi Kolawole was elected as the party\u2019s governorship candidate on Wednesday, defeating ex-governor Segun Oni and former deputy governor Kolapo Olusola.<\/p>\n<p>The groups stated in a statement on Friday that the party\u2019s national leader, Iyorchia Ayu, should expect his first loss in the state governorship election because the process for selecting Kolawole was not transparent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0Ekiti 2022: Fayemi Calls For Peaceful Conduct As APC Primary Holds Today<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>They claimed that the appearance of Kolawole was planned by Ayo Fayose, the previous governor of Ekiti, in collaboration with Kayode Fayemi, the incumbent governor, to help the All Progressives Congress (APC) win the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish to make it abundantly clear to chairman Iyorchia Ayu and his national working committee to expect their first defeat because the PDP cannot win Ekiti on June 18, 2022,\u201d the statement signed by Banji Dada and Abayomi Olowomeye said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe winner of the primaries that you contrived to favour, Mr Ayodele Fayose, is a makeshift candidate planted by the former governor to help the candidate of incumbent Kayode Fayemi of the APC to win the guber election.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iyorchia Ayu Two factions inside the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Ekiti Political Intervention Coalition and Concerned Delegates and Party Members, have expressed dissatisfaction with the party\u2019s primary election in the state. Former Ekiti PDP chairman Bisi Kolawole was elected as the party\u2019s governorship candidate on Wednesday, defeating ex-governor Segun Oni and former deputy governor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}