Nigeria: Ekiti Guber Election - Olubolade, Bamisile Back Consensus Option to Pick Candidate

5 March 2014

Former Minister of Police Affairs and governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Ekiti State, Navy Captain Caleb Olubolade (rtd), and former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Femi Bamisile, have lent their voices to the adoption of consensus option for the choice of the party's candidate for the June 21, gubernatorial election in the state.

Olubolade and Bamisile are of the firm view that if the PDP governorship candidate in the state is allowed to emerge through a consensus arrangement, such would help to avoid the rancour, bickering and ill-feelings that usually characterise the process of primaries in any election. Both the former minister and Bamisile spoke with journalists at separate interviews in Abuja, the nation's capital.

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