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Last Updated: Monday, December 13th, 2004 HOME | Previous Page Ekiti leaders forum castigates aspirants   By David Atalese, Ado-Ekiti   Aspirants into political offices in Ekiti State in 2007 have been castigated for not doing enough to make their ambitions known to the electorate who would determine their fate during the coming general elections. Speaking at the meeting of the state’s elder’s forum in Otun-Ekiti, the secretary, Chief Idowu Odeyemi, said it was a matter for great concern that the aspirants are timid and afraid of governor Ayodele Fayose. He told the aspirants who attended the meeting that if Fayose had been afraid of the former State Governor, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo, he (Fayose) would not become the state governor. Odeyemi told them that the forum could not pick anyone to become governor, and admonished them to move round the state and make their ambitions known to the people through their political parties. He explained their political parties would screen them through the assistance of the forum because the elders wanted to ensure that the next state’s governor must come from either the Northern or Southern Senatorial district of the state. Odeyemi stressed that apart from moving round the state the aspirants must also sell themselves to the press in the state so as to assist them to persuade the people about their programmes. Also speaking, former deputy speaker in the state house of assembly, Mr. Oladapo Karunwi, said that none of the aspirants was serious about their ambitions “because they are hiding under a very thick cloud so that Fayose would not see them”. He told them he was in support of the forum’s decision that power must shift from Ekiti Central senatorial district to either the North or South. Also speaking on behalf of the Youth Forum, a former gubernatorial aspirant, Mr. Sikiru Babalola, noted that those willing to lead the state during the next political dispensation must be prepared for the consequences of their intentions.     He told them that the youth would want to know how credible they were before they could support them to achieve their objectives “but power must shift from the central for good governance of the state”.       Copyright� 2004. All Rights Reserved. Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.independentng.com e-mail: [email protected] Designed By Powered By DNet.

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