The All Progressives Congress
(APC) governorship candidate for the July14 election in Ekiti State, Dr
Kayode Fayemi, on Tuesday relived how he and other bigwigs of the party escaped
being killed during the gunshot that occurred on Friday at a rally organized in
his honour.
The former Minister revealed that
he alongside Ondo State Governor, Barr. Olurotimi Akeredolu, ex-minister of
Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye and Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele would have been killed,
but for God’s intervention.
Fayemi vowed that the July 14
election would be the end of Governor Ayodele Fayose’s political reign in Ekiti
state, expressing confidence that the party will work hard across the 177 wards
to ensure that PDP is uprooted from the state.
He described Adeyeye’s defection
from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to APC as a big boost to the party,
saying his parting ways with Fayose would help the reclamation struggle against
the present governor.
At the rally, a policeman had
suddenly fired a gunshot, which hit Bamidele and five others, who are now
receiving treatments in the hospital.
Fayemi spoke in Ado Ekiti on
Tuesday when Adeyeye formally joined the party with members of Prince Adedayo
Adeyeye Movement (PAAM) across the 2,195 polling units in the state.
The APC candidate said, “We thank
God that we are alive. What do you think would have happened if Governor
Akeredolu, Adeyeye, Bamidele and I had died? It was possible for the bullets to
have hit and killed all of us, but we thank God.
“We pray that God just prevented
it. The unprecedented crowd we saw at Ikere Ekiti and how people were rushing
out shows that Ekiti people were determined to fight a liberation war against
Governor Fayose,” he said.
He assured PAAM members that
Adeyeye remains a respectable leader of the party, who can’t be shortchanged in
the political equation due to his political worth, if APC eventually wins.
Fayemi denied the allegation by
Governor Fayose that he was coming to sack the teachers, saying his coming back
will only add value to the lives of the civil servants.
“Let me assure you that we are
all equal in APC, there is nothing called defectors. We are going to reward
people on how they deliver their wards and units,” he said.
Speaking on Governor Fayose’s
alleged degrading of Ekiti’s virtues of integrity and honour, Fayemi said:
“Fayose is a coward, he only boasts in the open but a coward in the real sense
of it. All he wants is to pull all Ekiti citizens down for him to be on top but
his game is up”.
In his remarks, Adeyeye regretted
that Fayose allegedly tricked him and others in 2014 that he was a changed
person, only for him to get into government and turn a ‘despot’.
The ex-minister promised to
deliver bulk votes for Fayemi in the election, saying, “the unprecedented
winning of 2014 against Fayemi was made possible because of people like us.
“We knew Fayose’s tricks and his
antics, he is a selfish and cunning person. That is why we are joining hands
with like-minds like Fayemi to rescue Ekiti from him, because he has pauperized
everybody.
“We decided to join APC because
the party nominated a good person like Dr Fayemi as its candidate. Dr Fayemi is
highly educated and exposed, he is not crude like our brother, we are going to
deliver our votes for him.
“Governor Fayose said teachers
and civil servants will vote for him even if he owes eight month salaries. He
even claimed Fayemi is coming to sack teachers, these were all lies, that is
his stock in trade.
“We gave him benefit of the doubt
in 2014, thinking he would be a good person, but he turned out to be worse than
before.
“As we speak today, Fayose is
alone. He has no credible leader behind him. He is empty and naked and this
coming election will expose his weakness.
“With the way he has carried himself,
it was obvious that he came to loot Ekiti. But we thank God that we have a
reliable opposition in Fayemi.
“This work is our own, we must do
it with all our hearts. I know and I am confident that Fayemi won’t disappoint
us, because he has the love of Ekiti at heart.
“We are talking to those who are aggrieved in
APC to have a rethink, because working with Fayose would only make Ekiti worse.
By all standards, you can’t compare Fayemi with Fayose”, he said.
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