The Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) has launched the listing of candidates for the Ekiti State governorship election scheduled for June 20, 2026, excluding the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP), Wole Oluyede.
The listing was pasted on Monday on the INEC workplace in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, and incorporates the names of governorship candidates and their working mates from 12 political events cleared to take part within the election.
In response to the listing, candidates embrace Opeyemi Falegan of the Accord Celebration; Akande Oluwasegun of the African Motion Congress (AAC); Ayodeji Ojo of the Motion Democratic Celebration (ADP); Oluwadare Bejide of the African Democratic Congress (ADC); and Biodun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Others are Bidemi Awogbemi of the Motion Folks’s Celebration (APP); Joseph Anifowose of the Allied Folks’s Motion (APM); Oyebanji Olajuyin of the Labour Celebration (LP); Blessing Abegunde of the New Nigeria Folks’s Celebration (NNPP); Olaniyi Ayodele of the Folks’s Redemption Celebration (PRP); Owoola Daramola of the Younger Progressive Celebration (YPP); and Victor Adetunji of the Zenith Labour Celebration (ZLP).
Noticeably absent from the listing was Oluyede, the PDP’s governorship candidate, regardless of rising winner of the occasion’s major election performed in November 2025.
Oluyede, a medical practitioner, was elected on the PDP major organised by the occasion’s nationwide working committee (NWC) backed by Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde. He polled 279 votes to defeat his closest rival, Funso Ayeni, who scored 239 votes.
The exclusion of the PDP candidate is coming towards the backdrop of a protracted management disaster throughout the opposition occasion, which has break up it into rival factions.
One faction is aligned with Governors Makinde of Oyo State and Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, whereas the opposite is loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike.
INEC had final week declined to recognise the PDP nationwide working committee chaired by Kabiru Turaki, which is supported by the Makinde-Mohammed bloc.
The electoral physique cited a number of court docket judgements in its determination, stating that it might not replace its information to mirror any adjustments within the PDP’s nationwide management till all authorized disputes surrounding the occasion’s nationwide conference held in Ibadan, Oyo State, in November are resolved.
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