Ayo Fayose

 

We wish to draw the attention of the general public to the latest attention seeking sinister plot of the disgraced former Governor Ayodele Fayose.

 

This afternoon, Fayose came up with a spurious allegation that the Governor Segun Oni-led Government was responsible for the fire incident that occurred in his party office. It should be stated unequivocally that Governor Oni is not a violent person and that is known to everyone, including Fayose himself.

It is an incontrovertible fact that that political jester called Ayodele Fayose is synonymous with fire incidences. It was immediately he became governor in 2003 that Ado-Ekiti, started witnessing fire outbreak. Fayose was always the first person to get to the scenes of the fire incidents. But immediately the two fire engines that Fayose desperately wanted to sell to the State Government were bought, the fire outbreak stopped!

Again, when he returned from the political prison that he placed himself while running from the shadows of the criminal acts that made him run away from the government house, bundling himself in the booth of a car, Fayose set a water tanker on fire just to get attention.

We are therefore not bothered by the latest antics of this political fugitive because we are not in his league. We are not in the league of a character, who ruled Ekiti State like a fiefdom, killing, maiming, blackmailing, brutalizing and assaulting all those he perceived as his political opponents.

It is even interesting that Fayose is the one shouting about burning of his party office by the government. The same Fayose that personally led several unprovoked attacks on opposition party members when he was governor? Or does he think Ekiti people have forgotten the murder of Tunde Omojola, destruction of cars belonging to Alliance for Democracy (AD) members at Mugbagba,  Ado-Ekiti on May 28, 2005, murder of Dr. Ayo Daramola, attempted murder of Taiye Fasubaa, demolition of Senator Bode Olowoporoku’s house in Ado-Ekiti, setting Chief Idowu Odeyemi’s car on fire and several other acts of political intolerance he perpetrated while in government?

This man should just face the various criminal charges hanging on his neck and stop running from pillar to post in search of an elusive political relevance.

 

Let it also be remembered that Fayose said last week that many campaign innovations should be expected from him, and this one is definitely one of them.

Wale Ojo Lanre.