Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti
state, says anyone who leaves the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All
Progressives Congress (APC) is driven by covetousness.
Fayose stated this on Sunday,
while featuring on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme.
While reacting to a question on
whether the PDP is falling apart, considering the defection of David Umahi,
governor of Ebonyi, to APC and the rumours of Femi Fani-Kayode, former minister
of aviation, leaving the party, he said anyone that leaves PDP for APC is taken
away by covetousness.
“May I say this to you, very clearly. In the book of James one from verse four. The Bible says a man is taken away in his own covetousness. Anyone who leaves PDP for APC at this time must be taken away by his own covetousness,” he said.
“I’m over 60. What do I want to
become? I was governor at 42. All the opportunities anybody could offer, PDP
offered me,” Fayose said.
“I will not go to APC. What is
missing? Some people choose to be dishonourable. Not me. I will rather go and
be the husband of my wife, Feyisetan Fayose, and my son.”
On the purported defection of
Fani-Kayode, Fayose said the former minister is going nowhere, adding that the
purported defection is not true as he has spoken to him several times.
“I know FFK is going nowhere.
What they are saying is not true. I have spoken to FFK about six times. What
they are saying is not true. I’m 100 percent sure,” the former governor said.
Commenting on the Igangan crisis
in Oyo state, Fayose urged Seyi Makinde to be more proactive in fighting
insecurity.
“Governor Makinde needs to be
more proactive. Oyo state is a big state. Look at the incident that happened in
Igangan,” he said.
“When a similar case happened in
Ekiti, I was there, same day. I took charge of that community. I slept in that
community as a fact, and immediately they mentioned names here and there,
instead of fighting them, I went to look for them and brought everybody to the
roundtable.
“This I’m saying to you, I have
told governor Makinde. I sat him down and I told him, ‘your excellency, borrow
from our experiences; we are generals in this field.'”
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