Ekiti 2018: Kayode Fayemi to resign as minister next week

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By Pat PA Okon

The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Wednesday said he would resign his appointment in a week.

Fayemi, who is the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State spoke to State House Correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

He said there is a lot of work to do and he and his co-contestants are seeing the coming election as a collective rescue mission.

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