Ekiti 2014 Loading: How I made Fayemi Ekiti gov ~Opeyemi Bamidele “I Michael Opeyemi Bamidele to the glory of God most humbly, can lay claim to the fact that I practically dragged him out of the PDP and took him to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to recommend him because there was a strong geo- political sentiment in Ekiti that the next governor of Ekiti should come from Ekiti North Senatorial District. Gov Fayemi with due respect joined the party in 2006, six years after i had served as a national director of publicity of the party. High Chief Jide Awe who has been busy entertaining himself in the media and describing my gubernatorial ambition as a misadventure was recruited from PDP when we were trying to carry out some realigment of forces. we brought him from PDP in 2006 or early 2007 to come and be chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria in Ekiti. The same man who accused me today of being used by PDP to destabilise the party. When Gov Fayemi came to this country, and he was scuttling between London and Nigeria, he was not coming to Lagos, he was going to Abuja. I encouraged him to interact with us in ACN rather than PDP I practically dragged him down, because the three of them who were our friends but were coming home as members of the civil society, were coming to the Villa, the same VIlla they claimed was trying to use me now. I am happy Prof Julius Ihonvbere is alive, Dr Oby Ezewesili is alive, Fayemi was the third one who was writing presidential speeches in the Villa, writing all sorts of proposals in the Villa... Note that MOB was saying all these to correct the impression created by some people on his gubernatorial ambition that he is being sponsored by the PDP
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 06:10:25 +0000
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