Former governor of Ekiti State, Peter Ayodele Fayose, has been in a celebratory mood for the past three weeks over the defeat of those he considers to be traitors or his enemies. First, he was captured in a viral video celebrating the loss of Saidu Umar, the Sokoto governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Umar lost to his closest rival, Ahmed Aliyu of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Fayose’s celebration of Umar’s defeat is predicated on the fact that he was the anointed candidate of the Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, who had hoped that Umar will take over from him at the expiration of his tenure, two months from now.
Fayose accused Tambuwal of being a treacherous man whose defeat at the polls was payback for his series of betrayals.
Enumerating Tambuwal’s sins, he said the governor betrayed the PDP in 2015, by defecting to APC and subsequently betrayed the president-elect, Bola Tinubu who helped him become speaker by dumping APC to return to PDP. He said that while in PDP during his second coming, Tambuwal betrayed Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State who sponsored his presidential ambition in 2019. And when it was time to reciprocate the gesture during the PDP presidential primaries in 2022, he turned his back on Wike and chose to support his fellow Fulani man, Atiku Abubakar.
In his home state of Ekiti, Fayose has not stopped gloating over his strategies for ensuring Senator Biodun Olujimi’s third term in the senate. Ironically, he was instrumental to the rise of Olujimi’s political career. Olujimi, who represents Ekiti South senatorial district was defeated by Yemi Adaramodu the APC senatorial candidate. of the APC at the polls.
Recall that THEWILL had reported how Fayose openly worked against her re-election. Members of the PDP under the aegis of Fayose’s political umbrella, Osoko Political Assembly, resolved not to have her re-elected for allegedly failing to impact on her immediate constituency as a senator. They also accused her of working against the party’s interest in the 2022 governorship election in the state and of being high handed, as evident in the way and manner she single handedly threatened, hounded and intimidated a female politician who had signified her interest in Ekiti government house shortly before the party primary last year.
Although she condemned the members’ resolve to vote for the opposition party just to spite her and accused Fayose of being involved in anti-party activity, the national leadership of the party couldn’t come to her rescue even when she presented the matter to them.
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