Governor Biodun Oyebanji Emerges APC Governorship Candidate For Ekiti 2026
THECONSCIENCE NG reports that the Gov. Biodun Oyebanji of Ekiti on Monday emerged the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the 2026 governorship election in the state.
Newsmen reports that Oyebanji emerged through popular voice votes, echoed by 885 delegates who were elected on Saturday across the 177 electoral wards in the 16 local government areas of the state.
Newsmen also reports that the governor’s adoption took place at the Ekiti State Pavilion on new Iyin Road, Ado-Ekiti via consensus.
Kick-starting the exercise, the Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, moved the motion for the governor’s nomination and adoption as a consensus candidate, while the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Adeoye Aribasoye, seconded the motion.
Earlier in his opening remarks, Gov. Usman Ododo of Kogi, who doubled as Chairman of Affirmation Congress Committee, said that the consensus arrangement was a collective effort, devoid of any form of colouration.
“I can inform this gathering that the decision by our great party to adopt Oyebanji is not a product of imposition, but a way to allow the good works that the APC government in Ekiti has been doing, and so far recorded, to continue”, he said.
NAN reports that the APC National Chairman, Prof Nentawe Yilwatda, had on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti, inaugurated an 11-man Consensus Committee for the party’s governorship primary in the state.
He had said that the committee, chaired by Ododo and assisted by his Edo counterpart, Monday Okpebholo, would conduct the affirmation of Oyebanji as the sole candidate of the party for the 2026 governorship poll.
