PDP HAS CRUMBLED BEYOND REPAIR, SAYS EKITI GROUP

The Ekiti State Chapter of Asiwaju Grassroots Foundation (AGF) has said the campaign podium of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ayodele Fayose, which collapsed in Ifaki-Ekiti while the party's standard-bearer was on it symbolized the irreparable collapse of the PDP in Ekiti State.


Fayose had mobilized chieftains of the PDP to a rally in Ifaki-Ekiti, former Governor Segun Oni's hometown few days after the latter dumped the PDP for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

While the PDP candidate was busy abusing the APC candidate and incumbent governor of the state, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the campaign podium on which he was standing alongside other chieftains of his party and his wife, Mrs. Feyisetan Fayose, collapsed, sending the campaign ground into disarray.


Asiwaju Grassroots Foundation in a statement by its coordinator, Mr. Adeleye Akintola, in Ado-Ekiti, said the collapsed podium not only symbolized the collapse of PDP in the state, but also the rejection of the party's candidate by God.

"God has a way of communicating his messages to homo sapiens. Before the ground swallowed up Korah, Dathan and Abiram, God spoke through Moses, saying 'Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.'


"Just like Korah, Dathan and Abiram conspired against God's anointed, Moses, these people went to Ifaki to vilify Asiwaju Segun Oni and Governor Kayode Fayemi and as in the days of Moses, their podium sank and they were disgraced in lieu of Oni and Fayemi."


AGF said Fayose paid people from other towns to attend the rally in Ifaki-Ekiti to create the impression that the PDP was still relevant in the town, adding that the blood of Tunde Omojola, however, cried out from the ground against Fayose and his campaign podium, sending him and his goons crumbling like a pack of cards.


Tunde Omojola was allegedly brutally murdered in Ifaki-Ekiti by Fayose and his thugs on 28 May, 2005 during a rerun councillorship election.


In a similar development, a socio-political group, Ekiti Truth Vanguard (ETV), said it was puzzling that someone who could not build a strong podium is attempting to build a state.

According to a statement by its chairman, Akeem Bello, the group said it was not surprising that Fayose had transported his cosmetic approach to projects to his own campaign.

"Fayose can never build any lasting thing. That's why all the roads he constructed in Ekiti didn't last for three months."