The National Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria
(ACN), Chief Bisi Akande and the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola
Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday endorsed Ekiti State Governor Dr. Kayode Fayemi for a
second term.
They said he is eligible to contest next
year’s governorship election.
At a well-attended event held at
Jibowu Hall, Government House complex, Ado-Ekiti, Chief Akande and Asiwaju
Tinubu gave Governor Fayemi “a clean bill of health” as the party’s standard-
bearer in the poll.
They hailed him for “his sterling
performance in the governance of the state.”
On the entourage of Tinubu are
former Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Lagos State, Chief Dele
Alake, National Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and Senator James
Kolawole.
At the event were Deputy Governor
Prof. Modupe Adelabu, former governor, who is also the Southwest Leader of the
All Progressives Congress (APC), Otunba Niyi Adebayo, former governor of the
old Ondo State, Evang. Bamidele Olumilua, Speaker of the House of Assembly, Dr.
Adewale Omirin and Chief of Staff to the Governor, Mr. Yemi Adaramodu.
Also present are Senators Babafemi
Ojudu (Ekiti Central), Tony Adeniyi (Ekiti South) and Olubunmi Adetumbi (Ekiti
North), Ife Arowosoge, commissioners, special assistants, local government
chairmen and other party functionaries across the state.
Employing anecdotes, proverbs, jokes
and illustrations, Tinubu, who spoke for nearly one and a half hours, said the
visit was to settle misunderstanding within the party in preparation for the
coming election, noting that similar visits would be made to Anambra and Osun
states where governorship elections are also being awaited.
Tinubu went on: “We have not come to
impose somebody on you. We have come just to settle a quarrel. America would
normally say if the bicycle is not faulty, you don’t take it to the repairer.
Fayemi has passed; will you promote him or not?”
Cautioning Opeyemi Bamidele on his
purported plans to contest the 2014 election, Tinubu said: “When we got there
(the political headship of the state), why would we not know how to manage our
success?
“If anyone here knows Opeyemi, tell
him that Jagaban has sent you to him to drop his ambition. Invite him and
appeal to him. We will return later to do official endorsement.”
He noted: “Koko lo’ju Abe to ba ma
fari” (meaning, the knife that will shave must be sharp.)
Asiwaju Tinubu urged Fayemi and the
party leadership to make amends within the ranks. According to him, “there is
no shame in politics, everyone’s turn would come sooner than later.”
He urged that measures must be made
to reconstitute ward executives, adding that for the administration to succeed,
“party patronage must be controlled.”
The media has been awash with
reports that Bamidele, who represents Ekiti Central Federal Constituency I, is
planning to contest the governorship election next year. It was, however,
uncertain under which party he would be doing that.
Akande said the task of the ACN was
three-pronged, how to merge with other parties without experiencing cultural
hiccups, how to position the party for the coming elections in Anambra, Ekiti
and Osun states and how to unseat the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) from
national leadership.
Said he: “We are going to merge with
another party, but is our culture going to change? Three elections are on the
way, but how do we prepare for them? The last task is how do we remove the PDP
from Abuja?
“Our mission today is to set in
motion processes to settle our in-house misunderstanding. If any exists, we
must settle it to move ahead.”
The ACN National Leader described
the PDP as “a burden, which Nigerians must eliminate in the 2015 elections for
the country to progress.
In a parley with reporters at the
Government House, Tinubu said the PDP “has failed in justifying its control of
the country’s resources for the past 14 years.”
Assuring Nigerians that APC would
bring the much- awaited hope to the country’s disenchanted citizenry, Tinubu
said: “The APC is about change; positive change for this country.
“Unless Nigerians are satisfied with
punishment, unless Nigerians are satisfied with the level of poverty, unless
Nigerians are not angry with the level of unemployed youths in this country,
that is the only way they could decide not to change PDP.
“But we are determined to oust the
PDP. They have been in power for so long and they have not been able to use the
power to develop humanity and the Nigerian populace; what a waste.”
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ReplyDeleteTinubu is looking forward to turn Nigeria to his family affairs the same way he turn Lagos and south west.Now his daugther is now occupying the post last occupied by his mother in Lagos,wife in senate just to mention a few.Soon his wife or one of his children will be impose to be president of this nation if eventually Apc should get the people mandate.So what are we talking about?
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ReplyDeleteAsiwaju wey be kettle dey call pot black. Ndi ara azuru azu
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