Nigeria: How Fayose Lost Ekiti

16 July 2018

After winning the 2014 round in the duel between the two men, it was the turn of the outgoing governor of Ekiti State to lose what was a battle of ego between the former political collaborators turned foes.

The declaration of the All Progressives Congress, APC's Dr. Kayode Fayemi as the winner of the Ekiti State governorship election was reflective of the cyclic turn of the governorship of the state since the advent of the Fourth Republic. Since the Alliance for Democracy, AD first won the governorship of the state in 1999; no particular political party had won re-election in a governorship contest.

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