Ekiti: Making Fayemi Governor, A Huge Mistake; He Is A Betrayer – Senator Ojudu

By Akinwale Kasali

Ekiti state Governor,  Dr Kayode Fayemi, and Senator Babafemi Ojudu are of the same political party, the APC. They were friends, had a good relationship, and fought on the same side of the political divide.

When their party was given a bloody nose, both were rewarded with Federal appointments.

Fayemi became a Minister, and Ojudu a Presidential Aide.

But, political ambition.

Both men wanted to govern their state. And that’s when they fell apart.

Fayemi carried the day after a Primary which was, almost, marred by violence.

After the first round, Ojodu refused to take part in a re-run, alleging unwholesome process.

And since then, nothing has been the same between them.

The once rosy relationship is gone.

Ojodu accuses the Governor of running a one-man show. He alleges he does not consult anybody.

And the appointments he makes, one sided.

Worse, Ojudu is alleging that Governor Fayemi is operating a hidden agenda to destroy the fabrics of the ruling  APC in Ekiti State, in order to fuel his ambition to be  a Vice Presidential  candidate to  PDP’s, candidate in 2023.

Ojudu maintained that the Political romance between Governor Fayemi and the 2019 Presidential Candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, of recent, portend a threat to the APC.

He, also, added that the relationship  is aimed at weakening the APC structure in the State,  which has polarised the Party members’ loyalty.

This was made known at a recent media chat, during which Ojudu bared his fangs on recent developments in the state.

“I’ve never seen that kind of ambition before, granted, every human being should be ambitious but then if you want to aim to be the president of Nigeria, you must have been known to have done something good.

“If you govern Ekiti and turn all the roads in Ekiti to something that has never been seen before and you are providing water for everyone living in Ekiti, you’ve employed almost everybody in Ekiti, the place is looking good and clean, then Nigerians can say this man has done something spectacular, come and govern us!

“That is why he is now trying to bring down the party, of recent, I learnt that his dream now is to be a running mate to Atiku, the meetings he’s been having trying to break the party so that he can leave the party and join Atiku to become his running mate come 2023. It is wrong, you don’t destroy the ladder that brings you up, you don’t!”,Ojodu said.

Speaking on several issues, the former Senator revealed that the Ekiti State Governor, who he alleges to have brought into politics, along with a number of other prominent personalities, had become more of a betrayer than anything else.

Ojudu said Fayemi in what he described as petty and pedestrian, had just very recently sent thugs to his house to harass the house staff and dumped some few bags of rice.

The incident, he said, was in response to the criticism that the Fayemi administration,  despite the trust reposed on the Governor,  has done nothing positive so far for the State, from the Fayemi Government.

The former Senator also harped much on what he described as Governor Fayemi’s selfish style of Governance while hinting at the Governor’s destructive ambition.

“Nothing, he has done nothing in the State! I have granted interviews on the radio and Television, I have written it down, nothing has happened and that gets us worried as politicians of Ekiti state.

“During his first coming, this is how he did the same thing and that was how we lost election. So this time we are not going to keep quiet, we are going to continue to point out his misdeeds hoping and believing that he will initiate calls and correct himself and if he doesn’t, we are already letting the people of Ekiti state know that it is not a collective thing; that he is the only one ruling the state and the only one managing the affairs of the party but very soon, we are going to take our party away from him.

“So we are appealing to Ekiti, we made a mistake bringing him, we made a mistake voting for him and we are apologizing to the people of Ekiti and this is not going to happen again. All of the misdeeds that he has committed, someone else that will become the Governor of Ekiti state will right them and bring Ekiti at par with other states in Nigeria in terms of development.

“He (Fayemi) wants to become the only tree in Ekiti forest and all of us should be grass in that forest to be trampled upon. He is the one mobilizing resources and funds to remove the party Chairman, (Comrade Adams Oshiomhole) Everybody knows, Oshiomhole has called him out, party members have called him out, he is the one that has called Obaseki to the golgota where he has found himself now; he kept pushing that man and he (Obaseki) being inexperienced, look at where it has led him.

“Again not because of the good of our party nor the good of our country but just because he wants to become the president of our country”, declared Ojudu.