The Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Professor Kolapo Olusola, has urged governorship aspirants to support the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Professor Olusola said the focus of the aspirants should be on how to ensure the party’s victory in the 2018 governorship election.

He appealed to them not to get bothered by his adoption as the PDP flag-bearer in the poll by the party’s stakeholders in the state.

“Since my adoption is still subject to the conduct of the primary election in accordance with the Constitution of the PDP, there should be no cause for alarm,” the deputy governor said on Monday through his media aided, Oyetunde Oyebode.

He noted that all party members in the state have a right to aspire to be the PDP flag-bearer and called on party members to desist from utterances that could paint the PDP in bad light.

“We should not turn the quest for the PDP governorship ticket to an avenue for maligning one another because we remain one family. We should love one another and there should be no reason to fight ourselves.

“With my adoption, notwithstanding, others still have right to aspire and the good thing is that no one has been excluded from participating in the primary.

“Even from the word preferred, it means others are not excluded and imposition does not arise at all,” the deputy governor said.

He, however, said, “My emergence as deputy governor was the work of God, just as my adoption by our party’s stakeholders and I will continue to keep my faith in God and our leader, Governor Ayodele Fayose (of Ekiti State).”

Professor Olusola thanked Governor Fayose for the confidence reposed in him and promised to continue from where he would stop on October 16, 2018.