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He defeated an ex-chairman of the party in the zone, Eddy Olafeso, to win the contest. Arapaja had the backing of Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde and Olafeso was backed to the hilt by Ayo Fayose, a former governor of Ekiti State. Makinde and Fayose have been on a warpath for quite some time now and the election was always going to be a supremacy battle between both warring politicians; and a referendum on who pulls the most weight in the southwest geopolitical region. Makinde who became governor in 2019, fancies himself the de facto leader of the PDP in the southwest as the sole governor of the party in the region, a position Fayose completely detests, abhors and has fought publicly. ....