By Gboyega ADEOYE
Governor Biodun Oyebanji of Ekiti State should be more alive to political happenings around him. The State's All Progressives Congress (APC) may be gradually bleeding and there is need to be circumspect so as to be able to treat and then pull through 2026 political huddles seamlessly.
Yes, Governor Oyebanji should be attentive to the tiny sounds of the political drumbeats of the moment.
Many party members are unhappy. They are old politicians now being thought what's to them arrant political gibberish.
Or how could you overlook your political party members to be throwing political favours overboard into the camp of visible opponent? How can members be comfortable in their enforced mute mode when appointments meant for them are given away to opponents?
Certainly they think all is not too smooth any longer with their beloved party and they are angry.
Many party leaders in the state expressed concern that party politics have changed dangerously in recent time, fueling suspicions that APC may be forced onto a rough road towards 2026
Kirijtimes investigation reveals that the APC is fast loosing steam among some members who have no smooth access to the Governor. A coterie of party members and cronies of the governor, are believed to have fenced out the bulk of members and they are currently disgruntled.
The situation is so bad that party activities at the ward and Constituency levels are almost zero. Members are unhappy, believing they can't be working for a privileged few
The fear is that a ruling party with all chances of having unfettered access to holding on to power beyond 2026 is not only neglecting the bulk of its members but also arming it's major opposition in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), against itself.
Feelers are that, like never before, a lot of appointments went to the opposition PDP under the administration of incumbent governor Oyebanji, to the bewilderment of APC members in the state
It is also rumored that the ongoing overhead bridge project in the capital city Ado Ekiti, which is the biggest and most substantive contract by the administration, was awarded to a top PDP member and former governor of the state, who is now openly supporting the second coming of BAO.
In the face of the current political anomalies, elected members of the administration found a safe haven in Ado Ekiti, thus leaving members of their constituents and wards in tense political wilderness.
Ward meetings, seldom hold across the state and wherever it holds, you can only found few old members who will be there discussing their ordeal or how things are no longer the way it used to be with the party.
The pain among the tiring former committed members is that only the beneficiaries of present administration cannot mussle enough election strength that could guarantee victory for APC, should the table turned against whatever personal strategy the governor may be nursing
A staunch member who spoke to us on condition of anonymity said there are already whispers that the coming elections would spring some surprises within the party as feelers are assuming some level of reality that strong contenders within the party may start expressing their intention in the early part of 2025
The fear is that such development may badly polarize the party ahead of election and make victory for APC a mirage should the PDP has a gameplan they conceive and would eventually come up with.
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