President Muhammadu Buhari has asked members of the Ruling All Progressives Congress to ensure victory of the party in the coming gubernatorial polls slated for July 14.

Speaking at a dinner with South West caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC)  at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The president said the party must ensure that the election is credible and the will of the people not subverted.

He, however, called on party members to take their participation in the Ekiti gubernatorial contest seriously.

Chieftain of the party and former national chairman of APC, Bisi Akande, however, advocated support of all members to defeat the incumbent Peoples Democratic Party led by Governor Ayodele Fayose.

Akande was confident that the party will emerge victorious given that party members are now speaking in one voice.

President Muhammadu Buhari had called for the dinner to help calm charged nerves before and during the just-concluded gubernatorial delegate primaries in Ekiti State.

Notable personalities at the dinner include vice President Yemi Osinbajo,  the National Leader of the APC and former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Chief Bisi Akande, and the National Chairman of APC, John Odigie-Oyegun.

Others present at the event were; Segun Oni, Minister of Mines and Steel Development and APC flag-bearer in the forthcoming Ekiti gubernatorial race,  Kayode Fayemi, Governors Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo) and Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State  who was also the chairman of APC Ekiti Guber primaries committee among others.

Report by Nnabuchi Nnabuchi