Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi who has a good track record after fighting a three-year court battle to overturn a fraudulent PDP victory in 2007 saw his ACN party win all three Senate seats in the state and control of the State Assembly...
The ACN’s choice of youngish candidates to run for the National and State Assemblies and its voter registration campaign among younger Nigerians is working as is its pick of credible governorship candidates such as Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti State...
Yet the PDP is losing its political dominance especially in the south: Kayode Fayemi of the ACN overturned the 2007 election of the PDP's Segun Oni as Governor of Ekiti State in an epic legal battle and was sworn in on 16 October; on 26 November the ACN's Rauf Aregbesola was declared Governor of Osun State after the courts overturned the election of the PDP's Olagunsoye Oyinlola; and Great Ovedje Ogboru of the Democratic People's Party has persuaded the courts to annul the governorship election of the PDP's Emmanuel Uduaghan in Delta State...
Gubernatorial candidate for the Action Congress (AC) in Ekiti State (AC Vol 48 No 9) Kayode Fayemi has battled the might of the PDP's control of local election machinery to prove massive rigging by his opponenet Segun Oni...
The rerun pitted the People's Democratic Party (PDP) incumbent Segun Oni against Kayode Fayemi of the opposition Action Congress (AC)...
The appellant and rival candidate Kayode Fayemi from the Action Congress (AC) prepared well for the rerun: a former civic activist he brought in 800 election monitors from across Nigeria many with cameras and sound recorders...
In Ekiti State the PDP Governor Segun Oni is challenged by Kayode Fayemi of the Action Congress (AC)...
Some of the most dramatic scenes were in the governorship elections in Ekiti State on 14 April where the PDP's Segun Oni was fighting for control of the state with civil activist Kayode Fayemi of the AC...