The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, John Odigie-Oyegun, has said that the party has not endorsed any candidate for the governorship election in Ekiti State.

Mr. Oyegun said this while reacting to rumours that APC has endorsed a governorship candidate for Ekiti state.

“We don’t endorse for anyone. The party cannot endorse, we are father of all; every member and contestant,” he said.

He said the party would give all the contestants a level-playing ground, and that whoever emerges winner in an open contest would be the party’s candidate.

He also debunked claims that a recent visit to President Muhammadu Buhari by the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi, in company of a former governor of Ekiti State, Niyi Adebayo, was an endorsement of Mr. Fayemi.

“Fayemi is a minister in the president’s cabinet and a former governor of Ekiti State; and Adebayo is also a former governor of the state. They could have gone to discuss development issues pertaining to the state,” the statement said.

“The APC is a democratic party, we are not dictatorial or nocturnal in all our dealings. When you talk of a consensus candidate, you talk of the common decision of all the contestants to pick on one person, not that any leader will come and impose a candidate against the will of the party delegates who are entitled to their votes,” he said.

“If I didn’t impose a candidate in my state, Edo, and in other states where primary elections had been conducted by our party; if the president had not imposed anybody in those states, why should we do such in Ekiti?”