Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has said Bode
George’s journey to jail was planned by former President, Olusegun Obasanjo in
his Ota farm.
In October 2009, Bode George was found guilty and sentenced
to jail for 30 months. The sentence was handed out by Justice Joseph Olubunmi
Oyewole. The judge found the defendants guilty on 47 out of the 68 counts.
He was later acquitted after serving his two years jail term
by the Supreme Court.
But Fayose, in an interview at the weekend said George had always said he was the reason he did not become National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
He said if God had destined George to become PDP chairman,
nothing could have stopped it.
“He keeps saying I stopped him and I keep saying to him too
that when I wanted to become governor in 2014, he did not support me. He worked
against me. He worked with the likes of Jumoke Akindele to work against me. He
worked with Dayo Adeyeye at a time. But let us be very honest, politics is all
about interests. So, I don’t want to blame him,” he told Independent on Sunday.
Fayose said when George was in prison, he went to see him,
saying he would recall that when Baba (Olusegun Obasanjo) said he would go to
prison, he was the one who went to tell him.
“Then I was a sitting governor. I left Ota and came to Lagos
to meet him that Baba Obasanjo said he will send you to prison; that
arrangement has been made for you to go to prison. He can’t deny that.
“I was in Obasanjo’s bedroom in Ota when he told me ‘that
Bode, he will pay for it dearly. He will end up in prison. He wants to be
national chairman, let’s see how he will do it’. When I heard from Obasanjo, I
ran to Chief Bode George to inform him that Baba Obasanjo had insisted that
Nuhu Ribadu, the then EFCC chairman should file your paper quickly, saying
‘what Bode will be facing, he will not have time for national chairman,’” he
narrated.
Fayose said it was in Transcorp Hilton that that crisis
happened where Obasanjo and Anenih had issues and that it was because Obasanjo
wante to be Board of Trustee (BoT) chairman of the PDP and George wanted to be
National Chairman.
“It was on the issue of this national chairman that sent
Chief Bode George to prison. Chief Bode George wants to be national chairman;
Obasanjo wants to be BoT chairman. The late Tony Anenih eventually became the
BoT chairman. Obasanjo believed that Chief Bode George was going to disturb his
bid, that was why Chief Bode George was charged to court,” he said.
According to Fayose, “You will see that he was exonerated at
the end of the day. Most of the people out there don’t have these facts. So, if
God has not given you the national chairmanship position that time and he has
not given you this time, just know that it is not the will of God for you.”
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