A trending video clip of former Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has caught his admirers unaware and made them to doubt if the Former Chairman of PDP Governors Forum is actually in his right frame of mind.
In the video, Gov. Fayose raised critical issues that now agitate the minds of the people that know him which are:
(1) He admitted that Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State remains the leader of the party in the South West by virtue of being the lone governor of the party in the South West just like he was during his second term as governor of Ekiti State.
(2) He also admitted being fully in charge then in the affairs of the party throughout his tenure but doesn’t want the incumbent leader to go beyond his own state in administering the affairs of the party.
(3) He admitted supporting factional groups in all the states of the South West as we speak just like he did throughout his tenure as the leader of the party in the region.
(4) Fayose also threatens any leader that picks people or supports them in any factional tendencies in his state and vowed in the video to face them.
DOUBLE STANDARD:
A critical look at the history of Ayodele Fayose as a breeder of factions will suffice:
(a) In Ondo State, we have it on record how Ayodele Fayose used his Bourdillon warlord’s support to destroy the fortunes of the party when he waged war against our Party by pretending to be supporting Eyitayo Jegede whereas Fayose, Mimiko and Omisore were secretly funding Olusola Oke of AD then, under the pretext that he was fighting Late Buruji Kashamu and his supporters in 2016 . Hon. Ebenezer Alabi and Hon. Biyi Poroye left the party in annoyance because of the excesses of Ayodele Fayose then. His allies then were Eddy Olafeso and others whom he forcefully installed without discussing with any leaders or members of the party in the region. Fayose then was Planning to resuscitate AD with the trial election of Olusola Oke with the Support of Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu.
Surprisingly, what he did in 2016 was repeated in 2020 Election in Ondo by working against the Party. He supported the Zenith Labour Party Candidate, Agboola Ajayi and in league with the dissidents like Eddy Olafeso and co against the Party Candidate Eyitayo Jegede. In fact, they made a press release that PDP would lose that election authored by Rev Bunmi Jenyo.
(b) In Ogun State, Ayodele Fayose destroyed the chances of the party by joining forces with Ladi Adebutu to fight the late Senator Buruji Kashamu, uptill today, PDP is still in coma and gasping for breath from the strangulation of Fayose/Tinubu alliance.
(c) Segun Adewale Aeroland, Dosumu, Mrs. Maina, Jimmy Agbaje and others have a lot of axes to grind with Ayodele Fayose. His activities against Chief Olabode George and other leaders of the PDP in Lagos State robbed our party of victory at the 2019 elections.
(d) In Oyo State, Fayose’s treacherous dealings against the State Chairman of the party, Hon. Yinka Taiwo, Mrs. Bose Adedibu, Senator Teslim Folarin and many others cannot be forgotten in a hurry, all of them have one or two sour tales to tell about the compromising activities of Former Governor Fayose who polarized the party and left a big scar for the party to nurture. It was the intervention of God and quick exposure of Fayose’s clandestine moves that saved the party before the candidate of the party could scale through the 2019 elections, his presence at the party rally was deliberately tolerated and that was why his sponsors at Bourdillon, Road, Ikoyi believed they were in charge, hoping to truncate the Oyo State elections.
(e) In Osun State, Ayodele Fayose did not hide his disdain for his friend of many decades, Hon. Olasoji Adagunodo during the 2016/2018 struggles for the soul of Osun PDP Chairmanship. Adagunodo and Fayose are more than friends. It is not an exaggeration to call them Siamese Twins. Gov. Ayodele Fayose gathered other eleven governors of the Peoples Democratic Party and joined Faforiji/Omisore against his bosom friend, Olasoji Adagunodo till that struggle lasted. Fayose doesn’t remember any good done to him as he completely abandoned the Party in Osun other than to come and visit his Political Friend then, the Former Governor Rauf Aregbesola and assisted his candidacy and election during his first term . He did not for once contribute one naira to Osun PDP as the only Governor of the party in the Southwest.
(f) In Ekiti he openly supported Dr. John Kayode Fayemi against Dr. Segun Oni. That act fetched him his Magodo house from the Lord of Bourdillon. While his current efforts in holding South West down fetched him his current abode in Ikeja GRA for 2023 presidential bid or Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Further more, in Ekiti state, aside openly supporting the opposition to help install Kayode Fayemi for his first tenure, He openly campaigned against Senator Biodun Olujimi during the last Senatorial election. His anti-party activities are innumerable. During the last congress he caused a lot of distortions and divisions. Matters arising from his high jacking the process is before the court. To weaken the party he has alienated himself by deliberately refusing to work with critical stake holders. As at today he is always instigating his known errand boys to be abusing respectable leaders like Senator Abiodun Olujimi, Senator Duro Fadeyi and several Former members of National Assembly have left the party because of his unacceptable character. These include Senator Fatima Raji Rasaki and Hon. Oni Atiba, MHR. It must be noted that his open support for Bola Ahmed Tinubu is causing disillusionment among part members. His former Deputy Governors like Surveyor Biodun Aluko, Chief Bisi Omoyeni have been harassed beyond measure by him.
It will interest you that throughout his tenure as the only Governor in the southwest he did not contribute to the development of the Party financially in any of the states other than to use his position to support and create factions everywhere.
Finally our National Leaders if they want success in the coming Presidential election and all lone elections in the South West should not support him in his new quest to polarise the South West leadership structure.
FAYOSE’S RECENT ONSLAUGHT
The continued disruption of the peace within PDP in the South West at present as enumerated by Fayose in the latest video again shows that Fayose is an indecent political extremist. His activities must be curtailed, to forestall his present gang up against the party’s constituted authorities in the South West.
(a) Fayose claimed that he is in the majority in Ekiti State but had to personally take a doctored list of executives of the party to Abuja as against the popularly elected ones by majority of the party in Ekiti State.
(b) In Ogun State, Fayose said he is working closely with Ladi Adebutu against the factions and supporters of the late Senator Buruji Kashamu and a former governor like HE Otunba Gbenga Daniel, a faction which he helped create in 2014 till date and instead of making efforts to end the rifts, coupled with the open apolologies that the late Senator rendered those he felt he might have offended. Gov. Fayose kept on fighting the dead and still boasts about that he is working closely with Ladi Adebutu, obviously he is saying in essence that he is working against the interest of Buruji Kashamu, what a dangerous tendency.
(c) As we speak, since Chief Bode George has discovered that Fayose’s so-called political struggle against Segun Adewale and others were geared towards advancing the course of APC and Tinubu which was why Baba reversed from the factional politics, Fayose has again further polarized the party in Lagos with the minority group led by Deji Doherty whom he claims to be working closely with again. The recent elections in Lagos State where PDP came down with 11,000+ against APC’s 89,000+ shows clearly that Fayose is in league with failure and serial losers.
(d) Unfortunately again, Fayose said that he is not done yet with fighting his bosom friend, Olasoji Adagunodo by declaring his support again for Dr. Deji Adeleke that has said severally that he is not a card carrying member of the party. Remember that Dr. Deji Adeleke has been at loggerheads with Olasoji Adagunodo for refusing to allow the hijack of PDP in Osun so that his younger brother, Demola Adeleke could be the sole candidate of the party in 2018 and 2022 . This is the same person that Fayose again claimed he is closely working with in Osun state, as what you may ask? When his friend of many years has been affirmed by the Court of Law as the validly elected Chairman of the party in the State, yet he prefers to identify with the same person that has expended over a billion Naira to remove his own friend.
CONCLUSION:
In all, Fayose has suddenly become a power broker in the South West but interestingly, everywhere he goes and whoever he claims to support at every point in time is a person of means and heavy pockets. He fed fat on Senator Buruji Kashamu who sponsored his second term election in 2014 with over N2 billion Naira before he dumped him and picked on Chief Adebutu Kensington and his son Hon. Ladi Adebutu who is still paying his bills after leaving Ekiti as Governor.
So also, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is seriously paying the bills of Ayodele Fayose as the destructive element against the party aside the monthly stipends that runs into several thousands of dollars. It will also be remembered that when he was with Otunba Iyiola Omisore he also milked the former Chairman of Appropriation in the Senate dry to the extent that Omisore got tired of his endless demands.
Today, his friendship with the business mogul and Ede born billionaire, Dr. Adedeji Tajudeen Adeleke is obvious and millions are rolling in as usual. Dr. Ayodele Fayose should be guided in his incoherent utterances and stop confusing himself and not just the people. He said he would not tolerate any leader that tries to pick people or create faction in his state but he is at liberty to do the same unchecked and to also coerce the likes of Bisi Olopoeniyan, The real name of Olopoenia is AKA, he is a taxi Driver in the Airport that used to drive Baba Adedibu those days. He is not from Oyo state but of Osun and Ogun origin , a known associate of Bola Ahmed Tinubu and others into his factional group under the nose of a sitting Governor Seyi Makinde. Fayose is gradually becoming or turning himself to a rabid dog who will bite at will. His activities need to be checked and put under control if the party truly needs to govern the South West States beginning from Ekiti and Osun states in 2022 and beyond. Those who are dealing with him should be wary of him from other states, should look back at his antecedents and see that everybody he has ever supported or associated with had always lost in his game and he ended up discarding them as a disused toilet or else their fortunes will be traded off for his personal benefits and rescue mission at the EFCC which is his major reason why he is fighting PDP dirty in the public glare just to convince them that he is doing their biddings in order not to jail.
Signed
SOUTHWEST PDP YOUTH ALLIANCE
(1) Olayemi Irewolemi
Ondo State.
(2) Akinbon Tayo
Ekiti State
(3) Mayowa Bada Wasiu
Osun State
(4) Adediran Johnson Adeniyi
Oyo State
(5) Tayo Ashiru
Ogun State
(6) Nurudeen Okunuga
Lagos State