Ekiti 2026: ADC gov candidate guarantees issue-based marketing campaign

The African Democratic Congress governorship candidate in Ekiti State, Dare Bejide, has mentioned the occasion will interact in an issue-based marketing campaign forward of the June 20 governorship election within the state.

Bejide, a former Nigerian Excessive Commissioner to Canada, mentioned the occasion was set to unveil its marketing campaign and strategic committees for the election.

He additionally condemned the alleged removing and defacing of his posters by brokers of the ruling occasion.

The ADC candidate, who spoke with journalists in Ado Ekiti on Sunday, expressed confidence that the occasion would win the election primarily based on what he described because the folks’s discontent with the All Progressives Congress authorities within the state and the dedication of the ADC to right the perceived shortcomings and enhance the welfare of Ekiti residents.

Bejide, a former Secretary to the State Authorities, mentioned, “We are going to begin our marketing campaign within the first week of April. Our agenda is to marketing campaign successfully for about two and a half months. We aren’t going to organise any jamboree; we won’t hire crowds, and we won’t congregate occasion members for rallies.

“In the course of the campaigns, we are going to inform the folks why they need to desire the ADC to the APC authorities that’s inflicting hardship on them.

“We are going to run a peaceable marketing campaign. We aren’t going to embark on private insults or assault anybody. Our marketing campaign can be issue-based. We have now observed gaps within the system when it comes to infrastructural improvement and even the insecurity within the authorities.

“Folks don’t consider {that a} authorities actually exists. They consider the aim of the current authorities is solely to gather allocation from Abuja and share it. We are going to make sure that folks really feel the presence of the federal government. For us, the marketing campaign is a chance to elucidate our place on these points, establish the gaps and current what we are going to do if elected.”

He accused the APC authorities of intolerance towards opposition events.

“In the intervening time, they’re tearing our posters. There’s a directive that our occasion shouldn’t be allowed to make use of any areas for billboards and posters.

“We are going to nonetheless meet the standard establishment to debate these points with them. Ekiti State belongs to all of us,” he mentioned.

Bejide, nonetheless, urged the APC to make sure a peaceable and violence-free environment earlier than, throughout and after the election.

Reacting to calls by Governor Biodun Oyebanji on candidates of various events to embrace peace through the campaigns and election, Bejide mentioned the enchantment was not honest.

“You begin by trying on the APC in Ekiti itself. Is there peace throughout the APC? There isn’t a peace. You can not give what you do not need. If a celebration isn’t at peace with itself, how can it preach peace to the folks?

“In our occasion, the ADC, we had well-contested primaries, and a candidate emerged. Because the candidate, I’ve embraced the opposite contestants, and we’re on the identical web page.

“However within the APC, they’re nonetheless in courtroom, and I do know they may stay in courtroom till after the election. The APC should embrace peaceable campaigns,” Bejide mentioned.