Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as unfortunate the statement credited to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state that Governor Ayo Fayose is not wanted in their party, saying that “no reasonable Nigerian would even want to join APC that has brought Nigeria to its knees within a short period it is in power”.
PDP said that Fayose can never contemplate going to APC for anything, talk less becoming its member, saying that “decamping from the party to APC is like jumping from land into a dangerous deep sea”.
In a statement by the State Publicity Secretary of PDP in Ekiti State, Mr Jackson Adebayo, the party maintained that the statement by the APC “cannot be separated from the level of intelligence of those who sprang up the propaganda in the first instance’, stressing that APC has confirmed that its handlers have been sold into the delusional mentality, ‘hence they don’t know how well to promote their party again’.
Adebayo noted that it is only a politician who deliberately wants to commit political suicide that could be nursing the ambition of decamping to the dying party now.
The PDP spokesman added that Fayose does not possess the characteristic of an average APC person whose only political strategy is propaganda and economic innovation is recession and depression and whose government anti-corruption war is fake “like what we are experiencing under President Mahammadu Buhari”.
He stressed that if the APC should have a dream of having a new member, it should not look in the direction of Fayose, rather the party should focus its attention on how to solve its internal crisis which has pitched its former governor in Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, against his mentor, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu.
PDP added that Fayose is not given to deceit and fake promises which is the hallmark of the APC while welfare of the people is more paramount to him unlike the APC which wants to improvise the country.
According to the party, the APC statement has also confirmed that the so-called anti-corruption war of the Buhari-led administration “is designed to threaten opposition so that they could decamp to APC and become saints”.
“We want to say, without sounding immodest, that even if APC consults oracle from now till 2018, Fayose will not join them because nobody would leave city for the jungle to search for a mansion”.
