Mind Your Own Business...Fayose Tells Fashola

EKITI State governor-elect, Mr Ayo Fayose, on Thursday, warned the Lagos State governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, to desist from insulting the people of Ekiti, following the Lagos governor’s assertion that Fayose won the recent gubernatorial election because the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) induced the people with money. 

Fayose said in a statement issued on his behalf by the Ayo Fayose Campaign Organisation (AFCO) and made available to the Nigerian Tribune in Abuja, that “he (Fashola)  should stop insulting Ekiti People.”

According to the statement:  “The governor’s comment that Ekiti people were induced with money to vote for the PDP is an insult on the entire people of Ekiti State, and we in the PDP, will not take lightly to anyone insulting Ekiti people under whatever guise.” 

Fayose added that “the major problem of our friends in the All Progressives Congress (APC) is hypocrisy and until they purge themselves, that hypocrisy would destroy their party.”

The Director-General of the campaign organisation, Chief Dipo Anisulowo, the statement observed that “it is only a hypocritical mind that would claim that the results of an election as credible as that of last Saturday was induced by money and that Fayose ought not to have been voted for by Ekiti people because he was standing trial for alleged corruption.”

AFCO reminded Fashola that the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly,  Honourable Adeyemi Kuforiji, was also standing trial for alleged corruption, noting that “Fashola should first remove the timber in his eyes before talking about the speck in other people’s eyes.”

“It is also on record that the Lagos State Speaker,  Adeyemi Ikuforiji is standing trial for alleged corruption and Fashola has not asked the Speaker to step aside or resign,” it said.

The statement added:  “It is on record that it was the APC that induced voters with cash ranging from N5,000 to N10,000, and many of the party chieftains were arrested while distributing money to voters.”

Similarly, the statement recalled that a former governor was fielded as a gubernatorial candidate under the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in 2011 even when he was standing trial.

AFCO also pointed out that a leading member of the APC in the House of Representatives was convicted for fraud in the United States “and Fashola has not called for his resignation.

“Therefore, on the Ekiti election,  Ekiti people have rejected the APC and its deceitful government and elected their own governor. 

“If Fashola and his likes are not pleased, they should go to the tribunal  instead of insulting the collective intellect of Ekiti people,” the statement declared.