The Nation Newspaper

Tag: Mr Dayo Adeyeye

  • Adeyeye’s defection to APC won’t affect PDP’s fortune – Fayose

    Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti says the defection of former Minister of State for Works, Mr. Dayo Adeyeye from the PDP to APC will not affect the party’s fortune.

    The governor made the disclosure in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communication and New Media, Mr Lere Olayinka in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday.

    Fayose said that Adeyeye’s defection to the All Progressives Congress had merely confirmed his earlier position that he was never a loyal and committed member of the People’s democratic Party.

    Read Also:Fayose is very abusive, lacks decorum, says Oyegun

    According to him, I am not bothered by the action taken by the former aspirant in the just concluded PDP governorship primary election in the state.

    “His move to APC will not in any way affect us. This is because majority of those he thought were behind him did not defect with him.

    “In fact, one of his two party agents for the last primary is still with us in PDP and you know what that means.

    “If somebody is your party agent and could not go with you to another party it tells a lot and even as he is moving from PDP, many others from APC are coming to us, so we have nothing to lose with his defection,” he said.

    The governor said that he held no grudge against him because he had the right to move from one political party to the other adding that he wished him well in his new party.

    “While he was the PDP national spokesman, he had spoken terrible things against the APC and he has now gone to join the same party,” Fayose said.

  • PDP denies link with APDA

    PDP denies link with APDA

    The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has denied having any association with newly unveiled Advance People’s Democratic Alliance (APDA).

    The National Caretaker Committee of the party made the clarification in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Dayo Adeyeye, on Monday in Abuja.

    The party said that the clarification was necessary following numerous calls it had received its members, concerned citizens and well-wishers soon after the new association was unveiled in Abuja on Monday.

    “For the avoidance of doubt, we reiterate once again that we are not in any way associated with the new political association in any form or guise.

    “The APDA is neither an offshoot of the PDP nor its alter ego as some are speculating.

    “This statement is made purely to set the records straight and to avoid unnecessary innuendos, speculations and ambiguity that may threaten the continued unity and solidarity of our party members,” it stated.

    The party, however, appreciated millions of well-meaning Nigerians for their concern and commitment to the defence of the country’s nascent democracy.

    It added that the democracy “cannot survive without a strong and vibrant opposition.”

     

  • ‘Buhari has met Nigerians’ expectations’

    ‘Buhari has met Nigerians’ expectations’

    The Buhari Media Support Group (BMSG) on Monday said President Muhammadu Buhari had met the expectations of Nigerians in the past two years.

    It said that Buhari’s administration inherited a country “at the edge of the cliff’’ where the preceding government had pushed it but that his administration had steered it away from fatal fall to a condition of sure-footing.

    The group stated this in a statement by its Secretary, Mr Cassidy Madueke, in Abuja on Monday.

    It described the statement credited to National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Mr Dayo Adeyeye, that the party handed a healthy country to APC in 2015 as “ridiculous sham that leaves no room for true conscience.”
    Recalling the 2015 polls, the group said “the epochal defeat of the PDP in the 2015 election remains a verdict of no-confidence on the PDP.

    “Such was the level of desecration of public trust by the PDP and its officials that every burst case of corruption in the country must come with the emblem of the party.

    “No farce as the PDP might want to weave together can obliterate the memory of the abyss the party took the country while it reigned.”

    The group said that but for the “swashbuckling military campaign launched by the Buhari administration”, Nigeria under the PDP government had lurched towards a failed state, competing side-by-side with terrorists.

    “It is, therefore, confounding that the same PDP is today making wild, shameful claim of ‘successfully dislodging the terrorist sect before the 2015 general elections.’

    “It sounds as though the Goodluck Jonathan government inherited an incomplete country, to make it look like competing with terrorists for territorial claims is a worthy achievement,” it said.

    On anti-corruption fight, the group said that the strategy deployed by the Buhari government had gained global applause, and with remarkable results.

    “It is, therefore, a mockery of true conscience that PDP – the same PDP that has corruption as its emblem – will put up a bold face to denigrate the tremendous feat the Buhari administration has recorded on the fight against corruption.”
    On the economy, it said that the seeming early inertia was a consequence of the plundering of the economy by the PDP.

    It, however, said the good news was that Buhari had successfully plugged all leakages in the economy, putting Nigeria at the threshold of economic policy that would work for every Nigerian irrespective of social class.

    It said that the economic framework was predicated on the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) recently launched by the president.

    According to the group, this, of course, is a sharp departure from the Goodluck Jonathan’s economic plan that saw the economy adrift and exposed to buccaneers in government.

  • PDP: Wike, Fayose not sponsors of Jonathan’s peace meeting – Committee

    PDP: Wike, Fayose not sponsors of Jonathan’s peace meeting – Committee

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said it was untrue that Rivers governor, Nyesom Wike and his Ekiti counterpart, Ayodele Fayose, sponsored the party’s April 6 stakeholders’ meeting.

    The Publicity Secretary of the National Caretaker Committee of the party, Mr Dayo Adeyeye stated this at the news conference on Friday in Abuja.

    Deputy National Chairman of the party, Dr Cairo Ojougboh, had at a news conference in Abuja on Thursday alleged that the stakeholders’ meeting convened and chaired by former President Goodluck Jonathan was sponsored by both governors.

    Ojougboh, who claimed to be speaking for PDP National Chairman, Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, alleged that Wike spent N50 million to host the meeting.

    Adeyeye said that the committee would have ignored the allegations since Ojougboh was not an officer of PDP, but stated that doing so may send wrong signals to unsuspecting members of the public.

    He said that the PDP was not surprised that Ojougboh would hallucinate and found pleasure in castigating the two governors at every turn.

    He said that it was unfortunate that Ojougboh had never been able to utter a single word of criticism against his “paymaster, the ruling party”.

    Adeyeye recalled that the meeting was agreed at the residence of former National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen. Aliyu Gusau, in the presence of Sheriff, Prof. Wale Oladipo, Sen. David Mark, Sen. Ahmed Makarfi and Sen. Ben Obi.

    “In the light of the above, therefore, it is uncharitable for Ojougboh to allege that the stakeholders meeting was organised and sponsored by Wike and Fayose.

    “Indeed, it is the height of indecency for Sheriff and Ojougboh to allege that a person of Jonathan’s standing could be induced by anyone, not the least a governor, to organise the meeting,’’ he said.

    Adeyeye said that indecency was the nature of Ojougboh and his sponsors, adding that it was the reason they had no qualms in dragging decent people into the mud.

    He also denied Ojougboh’s allegation that Wike bribed the Judiciary with five million dollars to get justice on the Rivers Governorship Election at the Supreme Court.

    “We have been reliably informed that the latest accusation against the judiciary is part of their calculated and clandestine plot to blackmail the Justices of the Supreme Court.

    “That was what they did to the Justices of the Special Appeal Panel during the Ondo State Gubernatorial Election case.’’

    He requested the Supreme Court to find out from Ojougboh who among its officers that Wike disbursed the five million dollars to as he alleged.

    “Let Ojougboh be informed that he cannot pitch the good people of Rivers against their loving and performing governor over his childish and mindless allegation of financial impropriety,’’

    Adeyeye advised all PDP chapters in the states to ignore any directive regarding national convention by Sheriff.

    He also described the purported National Executive Council (NEC) meeting being summoned by Sheriff on May 3 as “total fraud, politically and legally’’.

    He urged chairmen of the states’ chapters of the party to disregard Sheriff’s request for the submission of delegates’ lists on or before April 27.

    Adeyeye said that PDP would announce meetings of its various organs at an appropriate time after due consultation with all stakeholders.

    On ongoing campaign by Sheriff in the South-East and South-South zones, he commended PDP stakeholders in the regions “for not partaking in such illegality.

    “The presence of the two deputy governors was solely on grounds of hospitality.

    “The PDP is not organising any campaign or rally around the country at the moment.

    “We urge our members to remain steadfast and continue to ignore any meeting called by Sheriff.’’