Sequel to the recently
concluded results of the Ondo State governorship election which the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP lost to the All Progressives Congress, APC Governor
Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has said he is not sure if he will present his
candidate on the platform of the PDP.
Governor Ayodele Fayose |
Fayose, who dropped the
hint in Ikere Ekiti while meeting with the members of the Suppliers’
Association of Nigeria, Ikere chapter, said “I don’t know the platform I will
use for the 2018 election yet and at the appropriate time, I will tell you.
“We are still studying
the situation. We have to play the game left, right and centre and whoever we
are going to use and the platform, you will all be part of the process because
party politics is about the people”.
Fayose also said the
victory of Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, the candidate of the APC in the Saturday’s
governorship poll in Ondo State does not in any way threaten the popularity and
general acceptability of the PDP in Ekiti.
The governor, who
described Akeredolu’s victory at the poll as a collaborative effort of the
Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) and the ruling APC, added
that the victory did not confer legitimacy on the poll or lent credence to the
fact that Ondo electorate had voted rightly.
“You all saw how people
sold their votes in Ondo state, I am confident that that will not happen in
Ekiti. I am close to the people you are the source of my strength. Even if it
requires just 48 hours to any election, if I tell you where to go, you will
surely follow me there”, Fayose said.
Meanwhile at a separate
meeting with the junior staff of the state civil service, Fayose had also
boasted that he will repeat the 16-0 he meted out to Ex-governor Kayode Fayemi
in 2014, where he defeated the incumbent in all the sixteen local governments.
In his words: “APC will
be fooling itself if it thinks it will conquer Ekiti like it did in Ondo. Ekiti
is a peculiar place and I am the man on ground here. I want to assure my
supporters and Nigerians that APC won’t win a local government here in 2018,
even if President Muhammadu Buhari moves down all the money in FG’s TSA.
“Governor Olusegun Mimiko
and Eyitayo Jegede must have lost in Ondo State, but that does not mean the
people had voted rightly. In 2015, people clamoured for change and what have we
got now? Nigerians are becoming poorer than ever.
“Today, I am the only one
among the APC governors in the southwest. I am now like the nation of Israel
surrounded by enemies, but I shall defeat and triumph over them. “APC has never
defeated me in any battle, either political or legal. Whether they like it or
not, I will win in Ekiti no matter the animosity, because I have the people
behind me”, Fayose said.
* Source: The News Guru
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