Why I Against Fayose, by Oni

Former  Governor of Ekiti State,  Olusegun Oni has declared governor-elect Ayodele Fayose as a wrong role model for youths. 

Speaking on a radio programme, “Face the Nation”, broadcast on RockCity 101.9 fm Abeokuta, Ogun State, Oni said  this was one of the reasons why he did not support Fayose and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the poll.

He said:  “Fayose had been governor of Ekiti State. His records are there and cast your mind back and judge in your own mind whether what I’m saying is true. It is about the personalities of the two people involved, it is about the future of our state, who can place it firmly under , it is about the fact that we don’t want a governor whose image will rubbish us .

“I have been governor and if anybody comes to that office and misbehaves, I will feel like it is the office that has misbehaved. If your governor misbehave, anytime, I will feel like it is the office that has misbehaved and if the office of the governor misbehaves, I will feel bad that a part of me has misbehaved.”

Oni, who is the Deputy Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), said he held  no grudge and had forgiven  those who played a role in his abrupt exit from office four years ago.

“ I have forgiven Dr. Fayemi, I have forgiven Fayose, I have forgiven everybody, and so, the issue of vengeance did not come in. But I look at both of them, who will make us as Ekiti people more confident about the future, our children more secure and our future more assured, who I can recommend to my child or other children as their role model. 

Because I will never campaign for anybody for the governorship of any state and I want to tell you, if I cannot point to that person as a role model for the children in that state or my own children. I’m sorry, I am not here to run down anybody.”

“ People will ask me,why are you doing this against PDP,is it because the party offended you? And I say I have forgiven everybody including institutions that offended me, but why would the PDP for God’s sake not listen to what we keep saying,” Oni queried. The former governor  insisted that Fayose did not win the PDP primaries.

“They arranged it for him and if you must arrange anything for somebody,let that person be very credible, let that person have the image, let that person be that who will lift us up not an image that will undermine,  so they arranged for the wrong person and my conscience would not stand beside Governor Fayose on the podium to ask people to vote for him as governor,” he said. (Nation)