With the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) sweeping the National Assembly polls in the South-west at the weekend, an end may have come to the eight-year sojourn of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the zone. Upon the conclusion of the 1999 general election, PDP only won a senatorial seat in Ekiti South, when Senator Gbenga Aluko defeated Prince Dayo Adeyeye, the then National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere. Even former President Olusegun Obasanjo lost in his ward in 1999 as the Alliance for Democracy (AD) cleared the elections in the zone.
But PDP's inroad into the South-west began in 2003 when the then ruling AD in the region entered into a pact with PDP with the intention to support Obasanjo's second term bid.
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