Former Minister of Works and
immediate past Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), Prince
Dayo Adeyeye, has described the emergence of a factional body
called ‘fresh PDP’ as a desperate attempt to decimate the opposition party
ahead of the 2019 presidential poll.
Adeyeye said the Senator Ahmed
Makarfi-led caretaker committee of the party under which he served as the party’s
spokesman decided to set up Governor Seriake Dickson-led reconciliation
committee, having premonition that some enemies would like to burrow into the
party using the post convention crisis to further cause colossal disaffection
among members.
On his gubernatorial ambition in
Ekiti, Adeyeye described Governor Ayodele Fayose’s adoption of his deputy, Prof
Kolapo Olusola as the sole candidate of the party as antithetical to democratic
norms.
“I repose confidence in Uche
Secondus-led NWC of our party and I know he will rubbish whatever moves made by
Fayose to impose his deputy.
“The new PDP we have belongs to
everybody not to anybody. In the first instance, who are they to think they can
decide who becomes Ekiti governor?”
Adeyeye spoke in Ado Ekiti on Thursday
during a welcome rally organized for him by his admirers across the 16 local
government areas of the state.
He added: “The factional crisis
which I see as a mere distraction is a big disappointment”.
“We handed over a united PDP
through an elective convention, the first of its kind since the advent of PDP.
We anticipated that there will be crisis before the convention, that was why we
set up Governor Dickson-led panel and I know they will swing into action and
reach out to aggrieved members”, he added.
He said the PDP will lose out in
the 2018 Ekiti governorship poll if it presents another candidate, saying he
remains the most experienced politician in the state that has enormous
acceptability to defeat the All Progressives Congress(APC).
“PDP knew I was the only person
who can rescue the party. Go to the streets and find out, we have been
receiving goodwill messages through calls and electronic mails across the state
encouraging us on the need to forge ahead in spite of Fayose’s tricks.
“Let me say clearly, Olusola’s
adoption doesn’t put me in disadvantage position. Governor Fayose was only
looking for whom he can manipulate but I don’t worry about that; what I worry
about is impunity and imposition in our party.
“In 2014, the PDP was able to
appease me to allow Governor Fayose run but this time it won’t be so. I have no
blemish in my records as a politician, even as PDP Publicity Secretary and this
stands me out.
“Let me tell you, there is no
slavery again in PDP. I will fight this battle to the extent that Governor
Fayose will come to beg me for governorship ticket. Nobody has the power of
anointing except God. Though, I may not have godfather but I have God the father,
the finisher of our fates.
“In 2018, Ekiti will decide their
collective destinies, whether this pedestrian governance should continue or
there should be paradigm shift. There is youth unemployment everywhere. We must
fight for our liberation and this is what my aspiration tends to achieve”,
Adeyeye stated.
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