Dr Kayode Fayemi

The defeated APC Governor in Ekiti Kayode Fayemi is now a leading figure on the policy and strategy side in Muhammadu Buhari's campaign (AC Vol 50 No 10 Votes that don't add up)...

Instead Kayode Fayemi the former Governor of Ekiti State organised a credible voting system that avoided the usual recriminations about rigging and bribing...

That would leave Kayode Fayemi the former Governor of Ekiti State and a Catholic who has a similar record of achieving reform to Fashola...

The APC-run states in the south-west especially Lagos under Governor Babatunde Fashola and Ekiti under Kayode Fayemi won a reputation for high accountability and more effective social spending...

The APC incumbent Kayode Fayemi lost to Ayo Fayose by a wide margin after a brutal campaign...

Ekiti Governor Kayode Fayemi representing the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) had campaigned on a platform of three and half years of social reform and trying to cut corruption in the civil service...

The contest for the governorship in Ekiti State on 21 June is heating up with the APC chieftains – former military leader Muhammadu Buhari ex-Lagos Governor Asiwaju Bola Tinubu Kano Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso and Rivers Governor Rotimi Amaechi – pitching up in Edo Ekiti on 21 May to support Governor Kayode Fayemi's campaign for re-election...

There are a few exceptions in the APC strongholds in the south-west where support for Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola and his counterpart in Ekiti Kayode Fayemi is based on their popularity but also on their policies which have palpably improved schools and health services and cleaned up the environment...

There are strong ACN candidates for the presidential or vice-presidential nomination such as state governors Babatunde Raji Fashola (Lagos) Kayode Fayemi (Ado Ekiti) Rauf Aregbesola (Osun) and Adams Oshiomole (Edo)...

Samsung is now working with Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State in Nigeria to create an engineering academy and an assembly plant...