The
Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has said he cannot join the
All Progressives Congress even if he had to dump the Peoples Democratic
Party.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 moving into the party.The governor in a press statement issued by his Chief Press
Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday, cited the case of
the National Leader of the APC, Senator Bola Tinubu, who he said, worked
hard for the victory of the APC in the 2015 general elections but was
allegedly 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 because of how they have repaid somebody like Asiwaju
Tinubu. He worked and helped the party to secure victory but he 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 the crisis
rocking the PDP at the national level in which Ahmed Makarfi and Ali
Modu Sheriff were locked in battle over the national chairmanship seat
of the party.The governor promised that his administration would complete the
rehabilitation of the federal road that links Ado to Itawure before the
burial of the late military governor of the old Western Region, Maj.
Gen. Adeyinka Adebayo.He also promised to rehabilitate the Ifaki-Omuo Road, another Federal
Government road, to make motoring in the state more pleasurable.On the need to ensure coordinated development of 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 to an
eyesore.
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