The outcome of last Saturday governorship poll in Ekiti could be seen as an indicator of the political changes and permutations expected to take place in the Southwest politics in the nearest future.
An interesting aspect of APC victory in the election is that the development has returned the zone to its 1999 position, when the Alliance for Democracy (AD), received the backing of the progressives and the apex Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, to win the governorship elections of the six states.
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