Vice President Kashim Shettima has led the All Progressives Congress’s final pre-election rally in Ado-Ekiti, telling thousands of party supporters that returning Governor Biodun Oyebanji to office in the June 20 governorship poll was not a political transaction for the benefit of one man but an investment by the people of Ekiti in the continuity of the peace, stability, and development their state had built over the past four years.
Representing President Tinubu at the Grand Finale Mega Rally at the Ekiti Parapo Pavilion, Shettima described Oyebanji as a governor who had arrived prepared, governed with humility and patience, and kept government consistently focused on services that reached the market woman, the teacher, the civil servant, the student, and the farmer rather than serving as a platform for personal political ambition. He said the governor had not spent his term fighting shadows but building trust and keeping institutions functional.
He said APC’s internal stability was not accidental but the product of discipline and the sacrifice of leaders who understood that politics without order caused harm to the people they claimed to serve, contrasting it with what he described as the internal fractures and leadership instability visible in rival parties. He pledged that the federal government would continue working with Oyebanji’s team to deepen development, expand economic opportunity, and strengthen security across the state.
Senate President Godswill Akpabio, APC National Chairman Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, and several governors joined Shettima at the event, each reinforcing the message that Oyebanji’s record of delivery warranted renewal. The governor himself thanked voters for the trust they had placed in him, pledged to build on the progress achieved, and appealed for peaceful conduct throughout the election.
