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FAYOSE: A SUBSISTING LIABILITY TO NIGERIA’S POLITICS – PDP GOVERNORS’ FORUM
The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum (PDPGF) has been drawn to the outbursts of the former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, on the recent meeting between the Governor of Oyo State, H.E. Engr. Oluwaseyi Abiodun Makinde, with the President, H.E. Ahmed Bola Tinubu, at the Presidential Villa.
Ordinarily, the Forum, like any sensible and focused group in Nigeria, would not join issues with characters like Fayose and confer them the dignity they do not deserve.
Nevertheless, even though Governor Makinde has explained to Nigerians the subject of his parley with the President, it is exigent to respond to Fayose’s latest gaffe in order to draw attention to his degenerative public demeanour and the demeaning impact that it is having on the image of Nigerian politics. His attribution of partisan motives to Makinde’s meeting with the President, among other negative implications, portrays Tinubu as a desperate leader whose sole objective for interacting with governors of states in the country he presides over is to consolidate his hold on power.
Fayose’s pathological tirade also suggests that the current leadership in Nigeria is only focused on political horse-trading and trade-offs, to the exclusion of issues of governance and efforts toward addressing the nation’s development needs. The former Ekiti State Governor is indeed proving to be more a liability than an asset to the country’s body politic.
After several failed attempts to sell his services to the Presidency, Fayose has turned into a self-appointed attack dog of the Villa, desperate for retainership and seeking an upgrade from his status as the flunkey of Nyesom Wike, whose position as a Minister of the Federal Republic restrains him from condescending to Fayose’s low level, even as he has severally done so in the past.
As a former State Governor and one-time Chairman of the PDPGF, the Forum regrets the degeneration in his conduct in Nigeria’s political arena and wishes to call on his loved ones to seek professional attention for Fayose, who is exhibiting symptoms of an abnormal condition. Nigerians would indeed be deeply gratified to be rid of the ridicule that elements like him are drawing to the nation’s political character.
Nigeria’s democracy can be harmed by elements like Fayose, who only find relevance in an atmosphere of partisan hate and crises. The PDPGF therefore calls on the Presidency to dissociate itself from unsolicited hounds like him for the sake of sanity and in order to ensure decency in the nation’s politics.
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