October 24, (THEWILL) – A Lagos-based socialite and humanitarian, Princess Kemi Adewunmi, has her eyes set on occupying the Government House in Ado-Ekiti, capital of Ekiti State, come 2022 and she hopes to achieve this on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party. Kemi, the president of Soroptimist International and the Women Initiative for Advocacy, Social Justice and Empowerment, among many other organisations and groups she heads, is the widow of a former Chief of Air Staff, late Air Vice Marshal Ibrahim Alfa.
She will be slugging it out in the primaries with 14 other contenders, eight of whom are also women. The mother of two says that since she announced her governorship ambition, she has been receiving death threats from different people, including her distant cousin who is also in the race to become governor. This cousin of hers allegedly has the full backing and support of a controversial former governor of the state.
As she forges on with her political aspirations, she has made it known that should anything happen to her, her distant cousin, the former governor and some youth leaders in the state should be held responsible.
This is not Kemi’s first attempt to run for an elective position. In 2018, she lost her bid to represent Ekiti Central in the Federal House of Representatives.
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