Ekiti Election: What does it tell us?

The Ekiti Governorship election has just been successfully concluded by INEC under a new leadership. The sitting Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji of the APC demolished his opponents mercilessly. He got 319, 224 votes while the closest contender Dr Wole Oluyede of the PDP got a miserable collection of 40, 543 votes. The flagbearer of the ADC Mr Oluwadare Bejide got an even more miserable endorsement with a paltry 12, 872 votes. And the surprising thing is that the Governor beat both candidates in their Local Government Areas of Ikere and Ekiti South respectively. There is no need to waste space to discuss the abysmal performance of the other candidates, that we can call “the also ran.” The fact that the other candidates performed extremely poorly is evidence that we do not need more than three or four political parties in the country. So as I said in an article a few weeks ago having twenty something political parties is nonsense. It doesn’t help INEC to conduct free and fair elections. It doesn’t help the voters to make the right choices. And it doesn’t help our democracy to grow. Instead, it hinders its growth. The post Ekiti Election: What does it tell us? appeared first on The Sun Nigeria .

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