There was tight security in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday July 10, as President (APC) Muhammadu Buhari attended the grand rally organised for the All Progressives Congress candidate in Saturday’s governorship election, Dr Kayode Fayemi.

The combined security men, including soldiers, policemen, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps and Federal Road Safety Corps operatives, cordoned off many roads, forcing commuters to take alternative routes.

The situation caused gridlock in the capital city.

At the rally were the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole; National Leader, Senator Bola Tinubu; a former Osun State governor, Chief Bisi Akande; 11 governors, a deputy governor and ministers among other leaders of the party.

The senator representing Ekiti Central District, Mrs Fatimat Raji-Rasaki, formally announced her defection from the Peoples Democratic Party to the APC.

Also, the lawmaker representing Ekiti Central Federal Constituency II (Ekiti West/Ijero/Efon Federal Constituency), Mr Olamide Oni; the suspended member representing Ikere Constituency II in the State House of Assembly, Sunday Akinniyi; his colleague from Ise/Orun constituency, Ebenezer Alagbada; and a former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Owoseni Ajayi, were formally received into the APC from the Peoples Democratic Party by Oshiomhole.

Buhari urged the Ekiti electorate to cast their votes for Fayemi in order to reclaim the state and restore its values.

Buhari charged the people of the state to reject Governor Ayodele Fayose’s stomach infrastructure.

On his part, Oshiomole chided Fayose for directing that Ekiti economy should be shut down for partisan politics.

He said the governor manipulated the road transport workers to withdraw their service from the road so that people would not be able to witness the rally.

Tinubu described the PDP as a party of destruction.

He charged the people to support the APC, saying it was not easy to rebuild and that it took time to rebuild.

Urging the people to vote for him, Fayemi said no fewer than 15 candidates of other political parties had pledged their support to the APC for the election because of their belief in him.