Labour Party Governorship candidate, Opeyemi Bamidele, on Saturday said he rejected overtures from the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Demicratic Party to step down for their candidates.
Answering questions from journalists in Iyin-Ekiti after voting, he said the rumour of his stepping down for PDP candidate, Ayo Fayose, was "a figment of imagination." News came into town on Saturday that Bamidele had finally stepped down for Fayose on the day of election.
Bamidele said, "The rumours of my stepping down for the PDP could only have been a figment of imagination of whoever that was peddling that rumour. It is part of cheap propaganda that some people had adopted to run their own campaign and sometimes to mislead or confuse the electorate."
"Yes, overtures were made to me from both sides. The National leader of the APC contacted me, and the PDP national leadership raised a high powered delegation. I was not ready to step down for anybody.
"For me this is just not an election, it is a struggle to clearly make some decisive statements. As far as I am concerned I am the credible alternative available to the Ekiti people regardless of how the result of this election will go.
"I am sure that after today, the rest will be history. But to say for the record I never contemplated stepping down for anybody. That would have amounted to a disservice to myself and the people of Ekiti State. That would have amounted to a betrayal of people that stood side by side with me in this struggle."
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