Campaign For Ekiti State Governor
Kayode Fayemi ran for the Ekiti state governorship in the 2007 elections on the platform of the Action Congress party
The Action Congress of Nigeria party formed as an amalgamation of the Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD) by the loyalists of the vice president Abubakar Atiku, the faction of the AD being led by Chief Adebisi Akande and believed to be loyal to Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu, the Movement for the Restoration and Defence of Democracy (MRDD), a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), as well as some smaller political parties
In an interview with the Daily Independent in 2005, Mr Fayemi made poverty, education and healthcare central to his manifesto. The implementation of which he asserts will be consultative, including being open to ideas from the diaspora.
His campaign for governorship of Ekiti State was the subject of an article in the New York Times. While complimentary, the article highlighted the difficulty in navigating the moral high ground within an electoral process long steeped in corruption.
After three and a half years fighting through the legal system on October 15, 2010 the appeal court sitting in Kwara state declared him the duly elected Governor of Ekiti State, and marked the end of Olusegun Oni's administration as the then Governor of the state.
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