Bimbo Adaramola: There’s no reason to conspire against Fayemi

Bimbo Adaramola, one of the governorship aspirants in the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election in Ekiti state, has dismissed the reports that there was conspiracy against Kayode Fayemi, minister of mines and steel development.

In a statement issued after the inconclusive poll, the minister accused Daramola and Babafemi Ojudu, a presidential aide, of becoming too desperate.

Fayemi said some desperate elements scuttled the exercise because he was leading.

But Adaramola dismissed Fayemi’s claim, describing it as an assumption.

“Nobody brought even one ballot paper out to show that it had been sorted and this candidate is closing in on victory,” he said in an interview.

“I don’t think that is correct. People were voting, casting their ballots. I am not too sure of any box that people had brought out the paper and began to identify who has got the greater number of ballots.”

Asked to comment on the challenges of the day, he said: “Don’t forget that something will have to trigger something.

One of the things that happened today was that the rain started falling and then it took one hour twenty minutes for the rain to stop.

“When the rain started, the whole of people infiltrated this arena and that cut down on the number of people… don’t forget that this arena is actually supposed to be a world away from people and when people took advantage of the rains to run under the arena, that process was compromised.

“And then, if anybody blames us, my appeal to you will be to ask the agents of the party what happened. The party allowed us to have three or four agents and then why didn’t they mention anybody else. I am not going to speak for anybody. There is no reason to conspire against Dr Fayemi. If Dr Fayemi beats everybody under a free and fair atmosphere, we are going to support him, we’d back him.”

Adaramola was the director-general of Fayemi’s campaign in 2014.