Ekiti conducts referendum for creation of
18 local government areas
on july 20, 2014 at 1:03 pm



Ekiti State Government on Saturday
conducted a state-wide referendum on the
creation of 18 local government areas in the
state.
The referendum was held in 137 out of the
177 electoral wards in the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), recalls
that Ekiti governor-elect, Mr Ayo Fayose, had
urged the people to boycott the reference
being conducted by Gov. Kayode Fayemi,
who would leave office in October.
A NAN correspondent who monitored the
exercise, reports that there was large turn-
out in places like Ikere-Ekiti, Ado-Ekiti, Ifaki-
Ekiti, Okemesi-Ekiti and Iyin-Ekiti.
The turn-out in Ire-Ekiti and Ikoro-Ekiti, and
other areas was not impressive.
Former governor Niyi Adebayo and the
Commissioner for Cooperation and
Integration, Mr Funminiyi Afuye, both
chieftains of APC in Iyin-Ekiti and Ikere-Ekiti
commended the exercise, describing it as
“free and fair.”
But the PDP’s Publicity Secretary, Pastor Kola
Kolawole, described the exercise as“ a
failure, null and void.”(NAN)


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