Ekiti PDP reacts to Fayemi’s media interview, says ‘he’s a bad loser’

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has reacted to an interview granted to a national daily by a former governor of the state and the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, and described him as “a bad loser and day-dreamer.”

PDP in a statement in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday, alleged that Fayemi was “always seeking power through the backdoor.”

Reacting to a newspaper interview granted by Fayemi, in which he described the 2014 election, which he lost, as an “unfinished business”, Chairman of the PDP in the state, Gboyega Oguntuase, in a statement on Wednesday, advised the former governor to “perish the thought that he could achieve through the back door what the people of Ekiti denied him in a free, fair and credible election.”

Oguntuwase alleged that “credible information at our disposal this time round is that they are boasting that some judges of the apex court have now agreed to do their bidding and that they are only left with the Chief Justice of Nigeria to blackmail into their corner.

“It is a shame that these are the same people that the Supreme Court justices being tried by the EFCC, had alleged approached them with offers to pervert the course of justice in the Ekiti 2014 election.”

According to him, “Fayemi and his co-travellers are ceaselessly and shamelessly plotting to subvert the sovereign will of the people of Ekiti freely expressed in an election adjudged free and fair by both local and international observers, including the United States government.

“He did the right thing initially by conceding defeat but the taunts of his party people and the realization that the 2014 election accurately depicts him as a paperweight politician with no electoral value have returned to haunt him.

“And knowing full well that he has never won any election in Ekiti, and will fail if he contests the 2018 governorship election, he has devised scheme after scheme and plotted one device after another to use Federal might to compromise the Judiciary and the security forces to subvert democracy in Ekiti.

“He has failed before and he will fail again. Fayemi and his cohorts have tried repeatedly to enlist the Supreme Court justices, especially the newly appointed ones against the people and government of Ekiti.

They went to court after the 2014 election and lost all the way from the tribunal, through the Appeal Court to the Supreme Court. Fayemi is now boasting that he will cause the Supreme Court to reverse itself on its judgment on the Ekiti election, but he will fail.”