Fayose Protests Exclusion From PDP Osun State Campaign Council

By Ayodele Oni

Former Governor of Ekiti state, Mr Ayodele Fayose has protested against his exclusion as a member of the newly released list of Osun State campaign Council.

He said in a statement that those in the campaign list are pack of ‘political charlatans’, that cannot deliver Osun State to the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP).

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP, had on Sunday, approved the appointment of 128 members to serve on the Osun State Gubernatorial National Campaign  Council, with Senator Duoye Diri as Chairman for the upcoming Governorship Election in Osun State on Saturday July 16, 2022.

This was contained in a statement by Umar Bature, National Organizing Secretary of the Party who also announced that they will be sworn-in on Wednesday in Abuja.

The two-term Ekiti Governor said his non-inclusion in the Campaign Council is a joke taken too far by the National Working Committee, (NWC) of the party and promised to reveal his option B soonest.

“Among the listed charlatans,  none of them has achieved political status like myself, since I was the only one standing in Nigeria who has won an incumbent two times, so my non inclusions can only spell doom for the party in  Osun.

“The NWC conspired to embarras me by excluding my name on the list of the Osun State campaign Council, forgetting that I remain a leader to virtually all those appointed into the committee, when I was a Governor in 2003, nearly all of them are still boys.

“Myself and Governor Wike have options, should in case Ayu led NWC continues to be in bed with Atiku Abubakar, who  hates me with passion.”

He maintained that it will be impossible for Atiku to win the Presidency without the combined forces of Fayose and Wike.

Mr Fayose claimed that Ayu and his NWC should be blamed for the defeat of the PDP during Ekiti Governorship election and that he should not be tagged and excluded because of that, saying that he would soon reveal his next move.

Fayose has, consistently, lost all elections in Ekiti, including his inability to install his successor in office. Not a few PDP members in the State regard him as a destabilizing person.

In the aftermath of PDP’s recent Governorship loss in the State, Chief Tom Ikimi, a PDP stalwart, held him responsible for the Party’s abysmal performance.