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State governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has said he cannot join the All Progressives
Congress (APC), even if he has to leave his current party, the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
Fayose,
who spoke at a gathering in Ado-Ekiti, said the practice of use and dump
adopted by the leadership of the APC would not allow him to contemplate
defecting to the party.
A
press statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi in Ado-Ekiti
on Wednesday, the governor cited the case of a national leader of the APC,
Senator Bola Tinubu, who worked tooth and nail for the victory of the party in the 2015 general elections in
the country and who was subsequently abandoned by those he helped to put in
power.
“Some people have
been making overtures to me to join the APC, but I cannot join them. With what
have they repaid somebody like Asiwaju Tinubu? He worked and helped the party
to secure victory but has been dumped. That is not a party I would be
interested in joining.
“One thing I would not allow is for
anybody to rubbish our leaders in the South-West. Our leaders, including
Asiwaju Tinubu, must be accorded their due respect, as any attempt to rubbish
them will be taken as a slap on the entire Yoruba race,” he added.
The clarification by the governor came
on the heel of crisis rocking the PDP at the national level in which Senators
Ahmed Makarfi and Ali Modu Sheriff are locked in
a battle over the national chairmanship seat of the party.
This is just as the governor said his
administration would complete the rehabilitation of the federal Ado-Itawure
Road before the burial of the late military governor of the old Western Region,
Major-General Adeyinka Adebayo.
He also promised to rehabilitate the
Ifaki-Omuo Road, another Federal Government road, to make access to the state
more pleasurable.
On the need to ensure coordinated
development for the state, Fayose said a master plan for Ado-Ekiti, the state
capital, would be worked out.
He noted that the government would need
the support of landlords and property owners, as the government would not want
a situation whereby indiscriminate physical development would later turn the
town into an eyesore.
He promised that a Landlords’ Summit
would be conveyed to aggregate the opinions and input of landlords to the
evolution of the master plan. READ MORE
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