The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has said he
will never leave the Peoples Democratic Party for any other party despite the
crisis within the PDP.
Fayose said this in Osogbo on Tuesday when he visited
Governor Rauf Aregbesola at the Government House, Osogbo in company with about
50 dignitaries including the Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Mr.
Kola Oluwawole.
The governor said he read on the Internet that he was
coming to Osogbo to beg Aregbesola to plead with President Muhammadu Buhari not
to probe him.
He said, “I have not come here for that; neither have I
come to announce my defection from the PDP. I will never leave the PDP for any
party. This is my first official visit to any APC state in Nigeria. I am not in
Osogbo to ask Aregbesola to help me beg (the President) as being speculated in
some quarters. We are all Yoruba, politics is like water; it can flow anywhere.
“I believe in the Yoruba race; the race comes first
before the office of the governor. The race is eternal while that of governor
is temporal. We must watch today to be guided by tomorrow. I am here for the
unity of Yoruba as it affects the Oodua, our progenitor.
“I will remain in the PDP to play the role of the
opposition because without opposition in a democracy there will be dictatorship
and those promoting dictatorship in a democracy will end up in the stomach of
dictators.”
Fayose stressed that Yoruba people needed to unite
irrespective of their political or religious affiliations to ward off blackmail
and oppression.
The PDP governor said the financial crisis caused by the
fall in the price of crude oil could be used as an opportunity to develop other
sectors of the economy.
He said, “There is need for Yoruba people to come
together irrespective of political parties to protect the interest of the
Yoruba man and protect their leaders from being blackmailed or oppressed.
“There is the need for improved economic ties among
Yoruba states. Whatever good thing a state is doing can be copied by other
states.”
Aregbesola, who commended Fayose for the visit, stressed
the need for state governments to create economic ties that would rescue the
people from poverty.
Meanwhile, the Olukere of Ikere Ekiti, Oba Ayodele
Obasoyin, has cautioned the Fayose regime against stoking violence in Ikere by
denigrating his office.
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