On Adebayo’s belief that it is not yet the turn of Iyin Ekiti to produce a governor, Bamidele, said it flies in the face of rational thinking for the ex-governor to have been interested in perpetuating his own political hegemony at the expense of the collective interest of Iyin Ekiti people.
The Federal Lawmaker, who said he did not expect Adebayo to make such a reckless statement, even at gunpoint, maintained that he had never been desperate for anything in his life and had never been adjudged being overambitious by his brother, except for this new love for Fayemi.
Bamidele said this in a statement signed by his media aide, Ahmed Salami and made available to newsmen in Ado Ekiti on Friday .
Adebayo, who is from Iyin Ekiti like Bamidele, was the Governor of Ekiti State between 1999 and 2003 under the Alliance for Democracy.
Bamidele, who said he didn’t need Adebayo’s support to win election in Ekiti, stated that Fayemi would soon realise that the ex-governor is a political liability to his ambition.
Describing Adebayo’s diatribe and other vitriolic comments about his person as puerile and unfortunate, Bamidele declared that the best time for Iyin Ekiti to produce the governor is now, to make up for the opportunity bungled by Adebayo, who ruled Ekiti for four years without commensurate development in the town.
Bamidele posited that it would be wrong and utterly retrogressive, for the town to claim that it recently produced a governor, when there are no verifiable evidence, either in infrastructure or human capital development to justify such.
Why APC should not come back in Ekiti —Fayose
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti State, Mr Ayo Fayose, has charged the people of Ijero Local Government Area of the state against allowing the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return to power in the state.
Fayose, who gave the charge while addressing a campaign rally recently, claimed that returning APC to power in the state “will amount to sentencing the state to permanent slavery, permanent poverty, permanent hunger for workers and permanent kingdom for thugs, killers and treasury looters.”
The PDP candidate, who gave the warning while addressing supporters at Ijurin Ekiti in Ijero Local Government Area of Ekiti during a campaign tour of wards in the council, said when he was governor he “awarded a kilometre of road at N33m as against N1.150bn by the Fayemi administration.”
A statement by Fayose’s spokesman, Mr Idowu Adelusi, also quoted the PDP candidate to have said that “Fayemi’s administation did not construct any new road but is spending huge amounts to repair the roads he had constructed.”
The statement also quoted Fayose to have contended that “he did not borrow a dime to do all the works he did but Fayemi has plunged Ekiti State into debt in order to enslave the people.”
He said “Fayose said that he left N10.4bn in the state treasury when he was going and no successive administration has controverted that claim.”
Adelusi said: “The PDP candidate again said that during the Niyi Adebayo administration, which is a father of the Fayemi administration, Ekiti State came 35th position in secondary schoool’s public exams, but the status changed during his tenure because by 2005, Ekiti rose to seventh position in National Examinations Council (NECO) and eighth position in WAEC in Nigeria.
‘Opeyemi has not withdrawn from Ekiti gov race’
AN aspirant in the forthcoming governorship election in Ekiti State, Hon Opeyemi Bamidele, has denied a report that he has withdrawn from the governorship election, which comes up in June. The release warned those spreading the purpoted rumour to desist from misleading the citizens of the state.
In a release signed by the media aide of Opeyemi Bamidele, Ahmed Salami, and made available to newsmen at the weekend, it was stated that Bamidele, who is contesting on the platform of Labour Party (LP) never said he was withdrawing from the race at any time, stressing that the Labour Party gubernatorial candidate only suspended ongoing open rallies and town-to-town campaigns following the series of violent attacks on the party faithful recently.
The release states: “We want to state categorically and Affirmatively that Hon Opeyemi Bamidele has not withdrawn from the Ekiti State gubernatorial election and is still in the race and at no time has he contemplated such cowardly move. We are reassuring our teeming supporters and party faithful that Bamidele is determined to contest the election regardless of ongoing propaganda cum activities of our political detractors, especially those of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who are bent on misleading the public out of the fear that their days in office are already numbered”.
The release also qouted Bamidele to have said that “in the next few days, we will change our campaign tactics. We will consult and contact stakeholders within and outside the state on the way forward.”
“I don’t know for how long I will be able prevent people from reacting to all these acts of provocation. Also, I don’t know how we can continue our rallies under the present circumstance.”
PDP Chieftain Dumps PDP For APC
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State and former Deputy Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Chief Taiwo Olatunbosun, has dumped his former boss, Mr Ayo Fayose and the PDP for the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying that the APC holds a brighter future for the state.
The former Deputy Speaker said his decision to defect from the PDP was borne out of his acknowledgment of Governor Fayemi’s strides in the state.
Olatunbosun, who had also served as Commissioner for Information under the Oni-led regime, publicly announced his defection from the PDP during Fayemi’s campaign tour of Igbemo, Are, Iworoko and Afao, Fayose’s country home, on Friday.
He added that he had considered the exodus of well-meaning people across the country from other parties to the APC and decided it was high time he became part of the progressive train.
The former Deputy Speaker disclosed that the mass defection of some of the PDP members in the State was a decision taken at Ifaki Ekiti, the country home of former Governor Segun Oni who is also reported to be planning to join the APC soon.
Olatunbosun, who stressed that Fayose had nothing good to offer the people of the State other than his “political thuggery” disclosed that the ex-governor who claimed to be a friend of teachers left the State with a debt of over N3 billion emolument to teachers.
He urged Ekiti teachers to review their benefits and compare what they got under Fayose to the many allowances they now get under the Fayemi-led government which is the true friend of teachers.
“I slept and dreamt. I looked at PDP and saw that the party is bleeding and it is sure to die.”
Fayemi, Fayose Trade Allegations Over Fayemi’s Botched Visit To Afao-Ekiti Monarch
The Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Ayò Fayose Campaign Organisation of the (PDP) have traded accusations over the reported inability of Governor Fayemi to see the traditional ruler of Afao-Ekiti, Fayose’s community, during the APC campaign rally in the town on Friday.
The Fayemi campaign team, in a statement on Saturday, accused former Governor Fayose of allegedly locking the community’s monarch indoors “to prevent the monarch from hosting Governor Fayemi in his palace.”
According to its spokesperson, Mr. Dimeji Daniels, the Fayose campaign organisation claimed that “the PDP governorship candidate had gone to the palace earlier in the morning to order the traditional ruler not to welcome Fayemi in his palace,” and added that “the monarch had said there was no way he would not welcome Fayemi who is the sitting governor.”
According to Daniels, “his insistence drew the ire of Fayose who brought thugs to lock the traditional ruler indoors.”
But in reaction, Fayose described the allegation as a lie, saying “Ekiti State APC members are pathological liars; they have been governing the state by deceit.”
In a reaction by Mr. Idowu Adelusi, Fayose said he “did not have discussion with or send anybody to the Alafao that the monarch should not receive Fayemi,” saying “the Alafao is a royal father to all and free to receive all candidates whether from APC, PDP, Labour and Accord Party unlike Isan-Ekiti where Fayemi banned the Onisan from allowing any political party except APC to campaign in Isan.”
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