Chimara BygoldA Local Government Chairman in Ekiti State and Publicity Secretary of the Afenifere Renewal Group, Mr Michael Ogungbemi, on Monday declared that the Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has the requisite qualifications and competence to lead Nigeria to a greater height if elected President.
He described Fayemi as one of the few eggheads within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Southwest, who can be trusted with power, having demonstrated capacity thrice as state governor, federal minister and Chairman of Nigeria’s governors’ Forum (NGF).
Mr Ogungbemi, who is the Chairman of Ajoni Local Council Development Area, said that Gov. Fayemi had garnered enough of cognate experience in politics to lead Nigerians on the path of development, prosperity and enviable heights for all-round transformation that would benefit every citizen, regardless of status.
Ogungbemi expressed confidence in the governor’s competence, capability, capacity and strong character to lead the country and unite all ethnic groups in such a fashion that can guarantee unity of purpose to be able to defeat all adversaries.
Ogungbemi said: “As a seasoned and respectable professional, administrator and technocrat in Nigeria and across the world, Dr Fayemi will elevate to a national status the magical “Rescue Mission” he brought to Ekiti in 2010 that had radicalised the land and rejigged the economic, political and social systems in an enigmatic fashion.
“Dr Fayemi’s experience as a Historian, Political Scientist and War Expert specializing in Civil-Military Relations, are indicative of the fact that he has the requisite knowledge and sound understanding apart from being well informed” to lead the country.
Tracing Gov. Fayemi’s scholarly contributions to national and global growth, Mr Ogungbemi said: “Some of his research and policy interests include democratization, constitutionalism, security sector governance and regionalism in the global context – an indicator that he had gone through the right democratic tutelage.
“Added to these is the fact that Fayemi is an International scholar, respectable researcher, thorough-bred and well respected Nigerian politician with a workable document for the development of Nigeria, known as “Development Agenda for Progressive Nigeria”.
Ogungbemi noted that Nigeria is in dire need of a young, credible, vibrant, knowledgeable and energetic democratic leader like Dr Fayemi with impressive and sound political and democratic credentials, to provide leadership direction to usher the country into prosperity in 2023.
Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says fresh registration in the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) is 7,009,343 as at 7 a.m on March 14.
The commission in the Quarter 3, Week 10 update released on Monday in Abuja, also disclosed that the registrants who had completed their registration was 4,009,361 out of which 1,687,540 were done online and 2,321,821 physical.
The update also disclosed that of registrants who completed their registration, 2,009,469 were male and 1,999,892 female, while 33,985 were People Living With Disabilities (PWDs).
INEC also disclosed that it had received a total of 12,097,240 applications including those requesting for voter transfer, requests for replacement of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), and update of voter information record.
It disclosed that 6,434,265 of the applications were filled by male, while 5,662,975 were from the female of which 118,193 were PWDS across all categories.
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