Fayemi describes Fayose, other PDP officials as charlatans in govt

Immediate past governor of Ekiti State and current Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has described the present Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) occupants of the state government as charlatans that must be chased out of the governance of the state.

Ayo Fayose is governor of the state presently under the control of the PDP.

Fayemi stated this as the reason he wants to return as the governor of the state by joining in the state governorship election slated to hold on July 14, 2018.

In a letter the former governor personally signed and addressed to the national and state leadership of the All Progressives Party (APC) elders of the party, prominent citizens and traditional rulers in the state, he said that “public office is too serious to be left to charlatans”.

Among those the letter was addressed to include the national chairman of APC, Chief John Oyegun, a national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the party former Interim national chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, all traditional rulers in Ekiti state, members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), former and serving governors elected on APC platform, as well as prominent sons and daughters of Ekiti.

The statement which he issued on Thursday through his media aide, Yinka Oyebode, reads in part: “Public office is too serious to be left to charlatans and when men and women of good conscience that are committed to the ideals of social justice and the common good turn away from politics, we pave way for unprincipled opportunists to take power.

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“My convictions about how much more is possible in Ekiti stem not from any sense of entitlement but from a sense of service, of obligation and from my belief that posterity has positioned us for such a time as this. There is much that we have to repair and redress in Ekiti before we can go forward.”

Fayemi had on April 2, during the quarterly meeting of the Ekiti APC leaders at his Isan Ekiti country home, indicated that he would be seeking APC’s ticket to return as the state governor.

Fayemi was defeated as incumbent governor of Ekiti by Governor Fayose in all the 16 local government areas of the state, including his own local government, in the last governorship election in the state four years ago.

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