Kwara APC holds inter-religious prayers for peaceful conduct of 2027 elections
Special inter-religious prayer sessions have been held by members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osi, Ekiti local government area of Kwara state, for the peaceful conduct of the
Special inter-religious prayer sessions have been held by members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osi, Ekiti local government area of Kwara state, for the peaceful conduct of the 2027 general elections.
The chief Imam of Osi, who is also the chairman, League of Imams and Ulamas for the Ekiti local government area, Alhaji Saadudeen Ajisefinni, and the chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) for the Ekiti local government area, Pastor Kenneth Adegoke, led the prayers in succession.
The clerics also offered prayers for the actualisation of the political aspirations of both President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the state governorship aspirant, Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa (BOB), ahead of the 2027 polls.
The event, organised by the APC stakeholders and elders in the Ekiti local government area of the state, also had both the Christian and Muslim clerics praying for an end to prevalent security challenges in the area.
They prayed against banditry and other forms of criminality in the area, calling on God to enable political office holders to provide good governance as they prepare to take up different political positions.
The event, which was attended by eight past local government chairmen of the area, the APC stakeholders, elders and supporters, was also used by the people to endorse the governorship aspirations of Hon. Bolarinwa and the second-term ambition of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
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Speaking with journalists, one of the APC stakeholders in the area and aspirant for the House of Representatives seat for the Ekiti/Oke Ero/Isin/Irepodun federal constituency, Chief Omogbenle Adeyemi, commended the Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq-led administration for impactful development activities.
He called on Abdulrazaq to assist the party to produce Hon. Bolarinwa as governor come 2027, "just as the governorship aspirant produced Governor Abdulrazaq while he was chairman of the party in the state in 2019".
The APC chieftain, who said that Bolarinwa is a preferred choice of the party for the 2027 governorship elections, added that stakeholders would eventually rally round the party's choice.
Also speaking, a former chairman of the local government, Hon. Yinka Dallas, said.
"We have seen the way, and we don't want to deviate from it. That's why we've endorsed, declared and backed it up with prayers for Hon. Bolarinwa to be the next governor of the state and for the re-election of President Tinubu.
