Preparations for the governorship election in Ekiti State are on and getting more interesting by the day.
The Labour Party, during the week, had its primaries where Mr Opeyemi Bamidele, a serving member of the House of Representatives who moved to the Labour Party few months ago after a purported disagreement with the incumbent governor, Kayode Fayemi.
The disagreement, some say is about the lawmaker’s ambition to become the governor.
Mr Bamidele’s won the primaries and he will have to stand against Ayodele Fayose, a former governor of the state who emerged as the People’s Democratic Party’s candidate.
Nigeria’s National Conference has held for two weeks.
The voting pattern has divided the delegates in the conference, resulting in some dramatic events in the course of their deliberations and it got to the point that the chairman of the conference, Justice Idris Kutigi had to announce adjournment and a call for public intervention.
Some delegates from the north are saying that the order-six rule-four shouldn’t be altered. The rule specifies that the conference will adopt a three-quarter voting pattern which means to get a head way at any point of voting over a motion or a matter, seventy-five per cent, that is, three hundred and sixty-nine delegates must be in support of such a motion.
But some of the southern delegates disagreed with the rule, requesting that the conference should adopt the simple majority rule – two-third of delegates – which is perhaps more popular in Nigeria’s democratic practice.
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