By Ekpedeme Umoh
Former Ekiti State Governor , Ayo Fayose, has accused Oyo State Governor, Mr Seyi Makinde and a former Deputy National Chairman of the PDP, Chief Bode George, of masterminding the attack on him at the Peoples Demoratic Party’s rally in Ondo town on Wednesday.
Fayose was going to the platform where the governorship candidate of the PDP, Eyitayo Jegede, was campaigning when some youths came from the crowd to attack him and removed his cap. The youths also threatened to beat him up but some policemen came to rescue him and took him to his seat.
But the former governor accused Makinde and Bode George, who he hss been having issues with, of being behind the public assault,
Reacting through his media aide, Lere Olayinka, in a statement, the former governor said he would not stop speaking the truth , saying such attacks could not cow him.
Fayose said he would report the incident to the police for a proper action to be taken. He said a similar incident happened when a miscreant removed the cap on the head of late Chief Bola Ige who was the Attorney General of the Federation before he ( Ige) was eventually assassinated.
The statement read, “The masterminds had it all planned and they followed it up by celebrating what they saw as the success of their plot. They even capped it up by circulating the video.
“So it was not an accident, it was planned. But those who planned it only succeeded in advertising their political shortsightedness because the popularity of the brand Ayo Fayose, Osokomole cannot be rubbished by such a childish act. That they must have seen in the reaction of the people at the rally and I am sure they know that they can’t get such loud ovation even if they spend all the money in this world.
“As for me, I am unperturbed and I must say it clearly that those new comers to the PDP and their old allies, who won’t mind soiling the image of the party to achieve their aims will not be allowed to succeed.”
But the Chief Press Secretary to the Oyo State Governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, when contacted said his boss would not allow.himself to be distracted with such spurious allegations.
The CPS said the former governor “appears perpetually desirous of hugging the limelight even when the occasion doesn’t desire such grandstanding .
“I believe that ex-governor Fayose and his handlers need to look far away from Oyo State in search of their enemies. Governor Makinde has no link whatsoever with the incident Fayose’s aide was talking about.
“We expect all right- thinking members of the PDP to join the Governor of Oyo State in the prosecution of the noble and democratic assignment he is executing on behalf of the PDP in Ondo State at this time, instead of seeking to distract him one way or the other.
“The governor will, however, not be distracted either on the task at hand or on the well- intentioned desire to join other leaders to rebuild the PDP in the South West geopolitical zone.”
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