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  • ‘PDP will take over Ogun in 2019’

    ‘PDP will take over Ogun in 2019’

    The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Hon. Sikirulai Ogundele, is optimistic that the party will return to power next year. The former member of the House of Assembly spoke on the intra-party crisis in the chapter, its prospects and other partisan issues. Assistant Editor LEKE SALAUDEEN met him in Abeokuta, the state capital.

    Why is your executive committee still operating from outside the party’s secretariat?

    Secretariat is a mere structure. It has nothing to do with the party administration. It does not make our executive less authentic. The Sikirulahi Ogundele–led Peoples Democratic Party executive in Ogun State is legitimate and recognised by the national secretariat of the PDP. If Buruji Kashamu believes holding on to the secretariat will confer legitimacy on the so-called executive led by his puppet, Bayo Dayo, it will soon dawn on him that he is just wasting his time. At the appropriate time, the security agencies would do the needful. We would not use force to take possession of the secretariat, because we want to avoid bloodshed.

    Where do you operate from?

    We have a temporary state secretariat where we carry out day-to-day management of the party. We have documents to work with. In fact, I’m just coming from there; we have just finished our executive committee’s meeting. The PDP national secretariat recognised our secretariat; we receive official communications through the secretariat address. We are law abiding; we are for peace, no matter the provocation being perpetrated by the Kashamu group.

    Did your executive influence the suspension of Senator Buruji Kashamu by the national executive?

    The suspension is over; it was one month; it lapsed in December. It is not over for him; he has to face the national disciplinary committee of our party in Abuja for appropriate sanctions against his anti-party activities. The PDP is a disciplined party. No one is above the party’s constitution; members must subject themselves to the party’s guidelines and constitution.

    Can you still work with the Kashamu group?

    My plan is to run a united party in Ogun. Despite that, we have to be extremely careful with Kashamu. We don’t want people that will go and disclose our strategies to the opposition parties. In any case, when we get to the bridge we shall cross it. When he is through with the disciplinary committee, we shall know what to do.

    We started having problems when Buruji Kashamu came up with a deceit. We found out later that Kashamu was out to use our political fortunes to enrich his business interest through a diabolical organisation he called ‘Omo Ilu Foundation’. He forced many members of the party to swear to an oath of allegiance to his leadership. He took the party to court on certain issues. He used court injunctions to take over the party structure. What Kashamu did to Ogun PDP was the height of deceit. He is on his own. He should retrace his step. You can’t foist yourself on people no matter your wealth. You can earn leadership, you don’t buy it. The Ogun State Chapter of the PDP under my leadership will continue to preach peace and unity through constructive engagements with all aggrieved members of the party in order to achieve the sole aim of winning not only the 2019 governorship election, but in all other elective positions to give the people of Ogun State the  good governance they deserve.

    But, the Bayo Dayo group is claiming to be the authentic executive…

    The highest organ of the party had dissolved the Bayo Dayo-led PDP executive in Ogun State and conducted congresses from where the new executive headed by me emerged. Kashamu should stop flexing muscles over the former executive. Bayo Dayo-led executive has become history; no amount of threat, blackmail or court injunction will bring it back.

    The Bayo-Dayo group challenged the appointment of Southwest National Vice Chairman. What is your reaction?

    How can they challenge a party official that was validly elected at the party’s national convention? The man paid for nomination form; went through party screening and got elected at the party’s convention held in Abuja on December 9, 2017. It was a stupid action. How can you say someone who went through the process of the party election should be removed?

    What are the chances of Ogun PDP in 2019?

    Our party, the PDP, will bounce back to power in 2019. We will win not only in Ogun State but at the centre given the high-level insensitivity of the APC administration. People will compare the cost of living under the PDP government to what it is under the present government, especially the price of petrol and food items. All this will be taken into consideration before the electorate cast their votes. Before anybody can thumb print the ballot paper, I am sure he or she will consider the hardship the APC government has put us through.

    Have you zoned your governorship ticket to a particular district?

    We have decided to zone the governorship ticket to Ogun East. The PDP took the decision as part of political strategies to win next general elections in the state. The party cannot afford to gamble on 2019 hence the strategic decision to offer the governorship slot to the Ijebu axis of the state. The PDP had zoned the governorship in two previous elections to Ogun West but lost. Now, Egba is occupying the office, we want to try Ijebu this time around. The people of Ogun West- the Yewa should speak in one voice and let disunity stop among them, then, they will be in a position of strength to produce governor.

    Have you endorsed a candidate?

    Not at all, we have many aspirants jostling for the party’s ticket. Many of them are coming out; we will encourage them by creating a level playing ground. The field is open for everybody. They will go through primary. All we are interested in is for the best candidate to emerge.

    What is your advice to the electorate?

    I sympathise with the people of Ogun for the poor management of governance by the APC government. They should remain calm and steadfast. PDP is coming back to restore the lost glory of the state in 2019.

  • Nigeria is in a coma, says Wike 

    Nigeria is in a coma, says Wike 

    Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that Nigeria is in a coma, saying only the PDP can salvage the  country. 
    This is as Former Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido declared that he has the capacity  to revive the fortunes of the country.
    They spoke at the Government House Port Harcourt on Wednesday when the Former Jigawa State Governor visited to inform Governor Wike of his intention  to vie for the position of the President. 
    Governor Wike said that the APC is a party of strangers with no knowledge  of the intricacies of development. 
    He said that the APC thrives in politics of mischief wherein it engages in high level intimidation, corruption and dirty political  schemes to compel defection of PDP members to her fold.
    “If you decamp to the APC, you are no longer corrupt.  APC  is a party of daylight deceit.
    “I am happy that one of those who left to bring a messiah, have realised that the so-called messiah they brought  is no longer the messiah Nigerians expect. PDP  is the only hope for Nigeria”, Governor Wike said. 
    The governor  noted that though the PDP  made mistakes in the past, the Party is the only platform with the commitment and patriotism  to take the country out of the current situation. 
    He said the present political and economic situation in the country require politicians with courage to rescue  the country. 
    He said those who benefited from the PDP since inception till 2013 before defecting are the same people sponsoring  negative propaganda against the Party.
    The governor described Lamido as a committed and consistent  PDP member who is courageous and has the capacity  to confront the APC.
    He, however, urged all Presidential Aspirants to accept the verdict of the Party at the end of the primary. 
    Also speaking, Former Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido said  he is presenting himself to take over in 2019 because  the nation deserves to move forward. 
    He said that if given the opportunity to lead Nigeria, he has the capacity  to unite Nigeria and set it on the path of growth. 
    He said: “I want to run because I feel I can do it. I have the pedigree.  We stand  to fight for democracy  and the restoration of Nigeria”.
    He said that his will work with other PDP leaders to transform Nigeria for the good of the people. 
    The Former Jigawa State Governor said that the APC is a party of hate and deceit, hence it should be sacked in 2019.
  • PDP kicks against ‘third force’ proposal

    PDP kicks against ‘third force’ proposal

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday said the open letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo confirmed its poor rating of the President and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

    A statement  by National Publicity Secretary Kola Ologbondiyan said Obasanjo’s intervention was courageous, timeous and patriotic, adding that such had vindicated its position on President Buhari and the APC.

    it however rejected the call by Obasanjo for a third force, saying such would amount to repeating the same blunder that brought in the “ideologically vacuous APC and the Buhari Presidency” which it said had wreaked havoc on the nation.

    The PDP said it was obvious that President Buhari and the APC had failed the nation.

    The PDP said Obasanjo’s counsel had rekindled the fate of the people in the democratic process.

    The party said: “Repeating the old mistake of congregating political strangers cannot help our nation at this time, more so, when the few concerns raised by the former President about the PDP no longer obtain under the refocused and rebranded PDP.

    “The PDP is now standing on a truly democratic ground that perfectly represents and reflects the hopes and aspirations of all Nigerians, irrespective of their class, creed or tribe.

    “The fact is that Nigerians overrated President Buhari in 2015, but they have now seen that he never possessed the capacity and the required aptitude to effectively govern our great nation and pilot a healthy economy.

    “This accounts for the reason former President Obasanjo, just like most Nigerians today, is concerned about the quality of presidential candidates to be presented by various parties for the 2019 election.

    “The fact is that while the APC is already caught up with President Buhari, the PDP is open for a new engagement that will throw up the President, which our nation truly deserves at this crucial moment.”

    The party called on Nigerians, including leaders across board, to come together to rebuild the nation on “PDP’s consolidated base rather than traversing on another learning curve”.

  • Osun LG polls: Come out to vote en mass, APC to electorate

    Osun LG polls: Come out to vote en mass, APC to electorate

    The All Progressives Congress ( APC ) in Osun State of has charged the people of the state to come out en masse on Saturday to vote for its candidates in the local government election.

    The party advised the people, particularly the APC supporters to ensure those they prefer to elect to be in charge of their local governments have their votes because “it is a responsibility they should not take lightly.”

    According to the statement by its spokesperson, Kunle Oyatomi “Participation in local government election is as important as any other election in the country, and for locals, it should perhaps be more important for residents of the locality because it is their closest interaction with governance through which they can be heard.

    “Since it is official from the state electoral commission that the election is holding on Saturday, and since no other agency is authorised by law to do so, it is imperative that voters turn up for the election. 
    ‘Nobody should allow himself/herself  to be deceived that there will be no voting on that day. Anyone who says so will be attempting to fool you; so you have to come out and vote for your choice of candidate 

    “Any party that is not participating in the election may be doing so either out of ignorance or fear of possible disgraceful failure at the polls or both. However, the APC already has 280 of its candidates returned unopposed out of the 389 wards; but that’s not a reason to take victory for granted in the remaining 109 wards up for grabs. Go out on Saturday and register a decisive victory by voting for the APC from the rest of the contest.

    “The local government election will give a vivid indication of what the governorship contest of September will be. The APC expects no less than a resounding victory.
    ‘As you read this, ‘the party continued, the PDP, which is the most vitriolic opposition party we have in Osun, is so disorganised that its centre cannot hold.

    “Besides, all efforts to patch the factions together have repeatedly failed; which is an indication that the party is incapable of governing. They are falling apart even before the people of Osun show them the red card for the fourth time. The first time the PDP got the red card was in 2003, (but it took the court’s intervention in 2010 to stop PDP from stealing victory). 

    “The second time was just under a year that Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola came to power in 2011. That was when Sen. Iyiola Omisore and others were removed from the National Assembly. The third humiliation of Omisore and the PDP was in 2014 when in spite of the massive deployment of Federal might in the ex-Senator’s favour, he lost the governorship election woefully.

    “The fourth time will be a double on Saturday and in September 2018 that crushing defeats in both the council and governorship elections will nail the coffins of the PDP once and for all. That will be the crowning glory for a brilliant patriot of Osun origin who has so robustly fought a monstrosity called PDP from stopping progress in Osun. God bless Ogbeni.”

  • Ex-Kebbi governor, deputy, PDP members defect to APC

    Ex-Kebbi governor, deputy, PDP members defect to APC

    Former Kebbi State Governor Saidu Dakingari, his deputy Ibrahim  Aliyu with over 267,000  Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in Kebbi state have finally decamped to the All Progressive Congress  (APC).

    The state APC Chairman, Alhaji Attahiru Maccido, formally received the decampees  at a  Haliru abdul Stadium in Birnin Kebbi,  the state capital. 

    According to the APC  Chairman,  the defectors did not give any condition for their decision to join the APC fold in the state.

    He however said  they defected as a result of leadership style of President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Atiku Bagudu, especially in the areas of security, agriculture and economic sectors.
    He assured the decampees that they would be accorded equal opportunity and privileges  in the party, adding that “the doors of the party are still open for others to join.”
    Speaking on behalf of the defectors, former Governor Dakingari said the defection was a result of deep thoughts in the past three years since he left power.
    “ I joined the APC not for gain but for what President Muhammadu Buhari and Atiku Bagudu have been doing at the federal and state levels respectively for progress,peace and unity.
    “I call on all those I have offended to forgive me and I forgive those who offended me too,” he said.
     
    In his remarks, Governor Bagudu said the state would continue to move forward with the coming of new members into the party. 
    “Our state is blessed with  mineral resources but improper coordination had been the stumbling block toward exploitation of the resources.
    “With the cooperation we have now, we will achieve greatness. If we are truly committed to our aims and objectives of moving our state to greater heights,” he said.
    The APC North -West National Chairman, Alhaji Inuwa Abdulkadir, congratulated the defectors for joining the party. He  said the successes recorded by Governor  Bagudu was monumental.
  • ‘Fresh PDP’ dissolves self, embraces Secondus-led PDP

    ‘Fresh PDP’ dissolves self, embraces Secondus-led PDP

    Members of the ‘Fresh PDP’ on Saturday willingly dissolved the group after a marathon meeting with some chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    Led by Chief Olukayode Akindele, the group agreed to drop its decision to create a breakaway faction of the opposition party and pledged loyalty to the Uche Secondus-led PDP.

    The decision was reached after a peace meeting held at the Abuja residence of a former National Chairman of the PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, in Abuja.

    Notable among those present at the meeting were a member of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT), Senator Stella Omu and the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan.

    Besides Akindele, other members of the Fresh PDP at the meeting were Duru Ihuoma and Franklyne Edederan who lost out at the party’s December 9 convention.

    The Fresh PDP had, mid-December, opened its parallel secretariat PDP in Abuja to register its dissatisfaction with the outcome of the convention.

    The group has also renounced its plans to inaugurate a separate National Executive Committee on Monday, January 22.

    Speaking after the meeting, Nwodo disclosed that the reconciliatory process enjoyed the backing of the national leadership of the party and the BoT.

    According to him, no conditions were given by the group for agreeing to dissolve itself, stressing that members were enthusiastic youths that would be useful to the PDP in the 2019 elections.

    Also speaking after the meeting, Ologbondiyan declared that the group’s grievances had been addressed and that the PDP remained united across the country and in the diaspora.

    Nwodo described the disbandment of the group as the best gift the PDP can give to Nigerians, saying, “A lot of people thought our house was divided and was about to cascade down.

    “But we want to assure you that by God’s mercy, an internal reconciliation capacity of the PDP, the cracks that you noticed have been completely sealed off”.

    The ex-party chairman stated that the PDP will displace the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2019, adding that the government has proven to be insensitive to the feelings of Nigerians.

    He noted that the administration has failed in its duty of protecting the lives of the citizenry and therefore has no business being in government.

    Nwodo said, “Today, by what has happened here, we are sending a powerful signal across the country that the PDP wants to assure all Nigerians that we will not disappoint you.”

    “The members of the Fresh PDP that is now disbanded are young vibrant politicians. If a leader is leading, and nobody is following, he is taking a walk. PDP is leading and mentoring the young ones to take over.

    “The wish of a father is that his offspring will be bigger than him. If a father does not bring an offspring that will surpass him, he is not a good father. It means he doesn’t want his future to be better than his past”.

    Erstwhile chairman of Fresh PDP, Chief Olukayode Akindele, stated that his members were forced to breakaway owing to what he described as acts of impunity in the party.

    Akindele said, “But the issue of impunity and imposition had forced us into this situation because in PDP we don’t have any mechanism to address it.

    We have a mechanism for reconciliation. Reconciliation is when you have a dispute.

    “But when a criminal political act is committed, then what you need is restitution. But we have received assurances from our leaders here that this will be addressed and today while it marks the end of Fresh PDP, it brings a PDP that is caring and wants to address issues that may affect it in the primaries.

    “We have been having these meetings for a long time. An executive meeting was held at 5am today (yesterday) in the interest of the nation and the party so that we won’t have a parallel NWC come Monday.

    “That has been cancelled and we have surrendered the list to our leader here and we want to assure that this is the best thing that can happen to PDP”.

     

  • ‘Fresh PDP’ reunites with PDP

    ‘Fresh PDP’ reunites with PDP

    Members of the ‘Fresh PDP’ on Saturday willingly dissolved the recalcitrant group after a marathon meeting with some chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    Led by one Chief Olukayode Akindele, the group agreed to drop its decision to create a breakaway faction of the opposition party and pledged loyalty to the Uche Secondus-led PDP.

    The decision was reached after a peace meeting held at the Abuja residence of a former National Chairman of the PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo.

    Notable among those present at the meeting were – member of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT), Senator Stella Omu and the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan.

    Besides Akindele, other members of the Fresh PDP at the meeting were – Duru Ihuoma and Franklyne Edederan – who lost out at the party’s December 9 convention.

    The Fresh PDP had in December, opened its parallel secretariat in Abuja to register its dissatisfaction with the outcome of the convention.

    The group also renounced its plans to inaugurate a separate national executive committee on January 22.

    Speaking after the meeting, Nwodo said the reconciliatory process enjoyed the backing of the national leadership of the party and the BoT.

    According to him, no conditions were given by the group for agreeing to dissolve itself, stressing that members were enthusiastic youths that would be useful to the PDP in the 2019 elections.

    Also speaking after the meeting, Ologbondiyan declared that the group’s grievances had been addressed and that the PDP remained united across the country and in the diaspora.

    Nwodo described the disbandment of the group as the best gift the PDP can give to Nigerians, saying, “a lot of people thought our house was divided and was about to cascade down.

    “But we want to assure you that by God’s mercy, and internal reconciliation capacity of the PDP, the cracks that you noticed have been completely sealed off.”

    Akindele said his members were forced to breakaway due to as acts of impunity in the party.

    He said: “But the issue of impunity and imposition had forced us into this situation because in PDP we don’t have any mechanism to address it. We have a mechanism for reconciliation. Reconciliation is when you have a dispute.”

  • Benue killings: PDP accuses APC governors, ministers of hypocrisy

    Benue killings: PDP accuses APC governors, ministers of hypocrisy

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and cabinet ministers of hypocrisy in the handling of the Fulani herdsmen attacks killed 73 people in Benue State.

    In a statement issued on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, the party flayed the collective silence of the governors and some serving ministers following President Muhammadu Buhari’s failure to visit the affected communities.

    The party said it is a tragic failure of character and an act of hypocrisy that the same APC governors who, in 2013, unleashed insults on the PDP and its Federal Government for delay in visiting Borno State at the heat of insurgency attacks, have lost their voices now that President Buhari had refused to visit Benue, Taraba or Kaduna to condole the people.

    The PDP noted that neither the APC governors nor any federal delegation had visited Benue, Taraba or Kaduna since the unabating killings and traumatizing mass burial of the victims.

    PDP said: “It is unfortunate that the same APC leaders, who heavily criticised the PDP and wrongly accused it of staying away from troubled parts of the country, have become dumb under President Buhari despite his daily failures in governance and heartrending indifference to the plight of Nigerians.

    “Today, Nigerians are heartbroken to realise that those they thought were patriots and messiahs never had any iota of goodwill towards them.

    “The questions are; why have the APC governors and ministers suddenly lost their voices now that President Buhari has refused to visit Benue or shown any form of empathy to the plight of Nigerians? Have Benue and Taraba now become ‘no go areas’ for President Buhari? Indeed, this indifference calls for deeper reflection by Nigerians.

    “We challenge the APC governors to have a change of attitude towards Nigerians and at least show that they also are human, especially at this trying time, which the inept APC government has plunged the nation into.”

  • APC members defect to PDP in Niger

    APC members defect to PDP in Niger

    Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Niger State over the weekend have defected to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

    Former Governor of Niger State, Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu, has the readiness of the PDP in tackling APC for the 2019 general elections.

    Speaking during a Zonal Unity Rally at Agaie/Lapai federal constituency held in Agaie local government of Niger state,  Aliyu stated that the PDP would resist all intimidations from the APC adding PDP will bounce back to power in 2019.

    He charged PDP members on unity urging members to be steadfast and faithful to the party to ensure it’s success in 2019.

    The National Chairman of the PDP, Chief Uche Secondus who was represented by the National Financial Secretary, Alhaji Abdullahi Maibasira appreciated the members of the party in the state for his victory at the convention assuring that his leadership will ensure fairness to all.

    Receiving the 554 decampees, the Niger state Chairman of APC, Barrister Tanko Beji who apologized for the past mistakes of the party urged the party supporters to get their PVC from INEC which they will used in voting out the ruling APC who have failed them.

    He said that the present administration in the state have failed to provide dividend of democracy to the electorates refuting all claims that the projects being done are APC oriented projects,  “all projects on the ground being claimed by APC were that of the PDP and they include roads, schools, hospitals and traditional rulers residents renovations hence they have nothing to show the citizens.”

    Those at the event include the Party Board Of Trustees member, Prof Jerry Gana, former governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu, late Engineer Abdulkadir Abdullahi Kure’s group, governorship aspirant Engineer Hanafi Muazu Sudan, former National and state lawmakers, commissioners amongst others.

  • ‎APC: Only court can stop Fayemi

    ‎APC: Only court can stop Fayemi

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has described Monday’s White Paper indicting former Governor Kayode Fayemi as “a demonstration of executive recklessness by Governor Ayo Fayose.”

    The party stressed that neither Fayose nor his government has any power to bar Fayemi or any other individual from holding public office.

    Fayose had set up a judicial commission of enquiry to probe Fayemi’s administration notably to unravel how Fayemi allegedly embezzled N852m SUBEB cash loan obtained from Access Bank.

    Fayemi kicked against the composition of the panel in court, sitting partisanship of members who were allegedly PDP members and some civil servants that served under Fayose’s authority, which made their membership suspect to a fair hearing.

    The Access Bank appeared before the panel to exonerate Fayemi, explaining that Fayemi never stole that but that it (the bank) took back the loan to its vault when the state government failed to firm up agreement on loan repayment.

    Nevertheless, the panel turned in its verdict holding Fayemi culpable and, subsequently, Fayose raised a panel to come up with a White Paper, which yesterday banned Fayemi and his Commissioner of Finance, Dapo Kolawole, from holding public offices for 10 years.

    But in a reaction by the Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, the party described both the panel and White Paper as a kangaroo stunt to nail Fayemi, saying the verdict would not stand in the face of illegality that went into the exercise.

    Olatunbosun argued that the Supreme Court has since settled it in law that only courts of law can stop any aspirant/candidate from running for any political office and not any administrative or judicial panel.

    Olatunbosun said: “All Nigerians know that Fayose is recklessly lawless and cannot survive in societies where the law works.

    “His so-called White Paper is not only laughable but also a disgrace to all Ekiti people home and abroad with the way that Fayose has taken ignorance, vendetta and debauchery to a ridiculous level because we knew all along that this is what Fayose wanted to do.

    “We had expected his Attorney General, if he knows his onions, to have advised him that only a competent court of law can bar Nigerians from holding public office under the Nigerian Constitution.

    “A situation where Fayose assembled PDP members and pliable civil servants as a panel with a strict directive to indict Fayemi at all costs and thereafter issue a White Paper banning him from holding public office cannot hold water in a society where the law works.

    “With the way he is conducting himself desperately to stop Fayemi from holding public office, we are convinced that Fayose is seriously going through a political haemorrhage  and therefore his resorting to political desperation and unconstitutional means to nail our leader and a serving Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by any means possible.

    “Neither Fayose nor Ekiti State Government has the power to bar or prevent Dr Fayemi or any other citizen from holding public office but a competent court of law. Such wishful thinking cannot stand judicial scrutiny and we advert Fayose and his pitiable undertakers to read the Supreme Court judgment and Atiku Abubakar in similar matter.”

    APC spokesman said that by his “so-called White Paper that cannot over-rule the Supreme Court judgment as a precedent, Fayose has demonstrated recklessness, lawlessness and display of executive rascality arising from his ignorance of the law, constitution and total disregard for the rule of law”.

    He added: “It is now glaring that despite Fayose’s empty boasts daily that Dr. Fayemi is a paperweight politician who is not popular at home , the governor’s latest action has proved that the reverse is the case, as this barbaric action to halt the political career of a shining Ekiti star has shown that Fayemi is in league of  nightmare Fayose has to contend with.

    “It is an irony that Fayose who is supposed to be banned from holding public office because of the plethora of criminal  and financial misappropriation cases hanging on his neck is the one unilaterally banning somebody who held public office as governor without any blemish and is currently holding that of a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and has performed excellently well as shown by the ‘Award of Public Excellence’ trophy bestowed on him by credible corporate organisations.

    “We expect someone occupying such an exalted position of a governor like Fayose to be properly briefed and educated on the limitations of his powers as the head of the executive arm of government primarily to formulate policy and implement laws rather than interpreting the law and worst still, assuming the position of a judge in a matter involving him as a party.

    “We are not going to lose any sleep over a biased political report by a panel of PDP members set up by a PDP governor for the purpose of framing up our leader as a way of settling political scores.

    “This is executive recklessness and political rascality taken too far by Fayose and his kangaroo panel. We wonder where he got the power to bar a leading member of the opposition in a democracy.

    “We wish to assure our party members and the good people of Ekiti State that the so-called White Paper recommendation by Fayose’s kangaroo panel is not worth more than the paper on which it is written and this shall be challenged in a court of law and we are confident that this shall be quashed because there is no legal precedent or basis for it in the history of our country.

    “We also plead with Nigerians to bear with Ekiti people in this moment of our governor’s lawlessness that has negative implication for the integrity of Ekiti people in choosing their leader.

    “We also wish to remind Fayose that his immunity will expire in October and must be prepared to resume trials on his many criminal cases, including those pending in various courts.”