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| Aregbesola and Fayose yesterday |
The
Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has said he will never leave the
Peoples Democratic Party for any other party despite the crisis within the PDP.
Fayose
said this in Osogbo on Tuesday when he visited Governor Rauf Aregbesola at the
Government House, Osogbo in company with about 50 dignitaries including the
Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Mr. Kola Oluwawole.
The
governor said he read on the Internet that he was coming to Osogbo to beg
Aregbesola to plead with President Muhammadu Buhari not to probe him.
He said, “I have not come here for that; neither have I come to announce my
defection from the PDP. I will never leave the PDP for any party. This is my
first official visit to any APC state in Nigeria. I am not in Osogbo to ask
Aregbesola to help me beg (the President) as being speculated in some quarters.
We are all Yoruba, politics is like water; it can flow anywhere.
“I believe in the Yoruba race; the race comes first before
the office of the governor. The race is eternal while that of governor is
temporal. We must watch today to be guided by tomorrow. I am here for the unity
of Yoruba as it affects the Oodua, our progenitor.
“I will remain in the PDP to play the role of the opposition
because without opposition in a democracy there will be dictatorship and those
promoting dictatorship in a democracy will end up in the stomach of dictators.”
Fayose stressed that Yoruba people needed to unite
irrespective of their political or religious affiliations to ward off blackmail
and oppression.
The PDP governor said the financial crisis caused by the fall
in the price of crude oil could be used as an opportunity to develop other
sectors of the economy.
He said, “There is need for Yoruba people to come together
irrespective of political parties to protect the interest of the Yoruba man and
protect their leaders from being blackmailed or oppressed.
“There is the need for improved economic ties among Yoruba
states. Whatever good thing a state is doing can be copied by other states.”
Aregbesola, who commended Fayose for the visit, stressed the
need for state governments to create economic ties that would rescue the people
from poverty.
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