By Stephen Gbadamosi, Ibadan
A coalition of Ekiti personalities in continental diaspora across the United Kingdom, Canada, Asia Major, Australia and the United States of America, has risen up to present a political challenge across all the political parties in the state.
The group claimed that crises across the parties in the state had suffocated good governance and community development across the state, a development it said made delivery of dividends of democracy a mirage.
The group, Continental Coalition of Ekiti in Diaspora (COCOED), in a press statement issued at the end of a parley in Abuja made these statements.
Spokesman of CCOED, Mr. Ayodele Daini of its Canada branch, said it was the quest of all members of COCOED across the major continents of the world not to fold their arms “and allow Ekiti State to continue to rot in crises until it is completely swallowed up.”
He added that this led to the decision of the group, in their last emergency virtual meeting, to intervene and use “their resources, where necessary, to say enough is enough!”
“Based on this decision and after very long hours of diligent assessment of the current political situation in Ekiti and the various dramatis personae, the continental group zeroed in on Prince (Dr.) Funso Ayeni, a very formidable, clean and experienced, well educated, yet unbiased political figure as the right man to rescue Ekiti from all these daily confusions.
“It was this decision, in consultation with our various political leaders at home in Ekiti, that made the group to nominate me (Ayodele Daini) to travel down from Canada to Abuja and purchase the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship nomination form for Prince Ayeni and pleaded to all leaders of thought and traditional rulers in Ekiti state to prevail on him to run and rescue the state from the present political decadence,” Daini explained.
