Fayose dumps 80-year-old governorship running mate
Ayodele Fayose, former governor of Ekiti State and flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in next month’s governorship election in the state, has named a new running mate.
Fayose, who was governor between 2003 and 2007, has picked a new running mate for the election slated for June 21, replacing Pa Joshua Ojo, an 80-year-old retired teacher, with Dr. Olubunmi Olusola, an Associate Professor at the Obafemi Awolowo University, (OAU), Ile-Ife.
The PDP candidate revealed that the decision is a campaign strategy.
Mr. Dipo Anisulowo, the director-general of Fayose’s Campaign Organisation, said that submitting the name of the new running mate ahead of the deadline set by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is a strong point for their camp.
“The actual name of our deputy was kept close to our chest as a political strategy, since INEC timetable for the poll allowed for substitution of candidate or their deputies,” Anisulowo said.
“The choice of Olusola was arrived at in order to give the people of the southern part of the state a sense of belonging in the political calculation.”
None of Fayose strategies will fly. The guy nearly sent me packing in Ibadan some years back while in Power. Fayose is a power monger. He should first explain why billions of Ekiti voters money was invested in a moribund pottery project.
Why are these people so obsessed with the politics of 2015, that they see nothing else and are prepared to sacrifice their own people if possible to embarrass some one else. What dud they do Ruth over 40 years in political power to uplift their people. The people should ignore them and take their own fortunes into their hands as done during the Sunni Awakening against Al Qaeda in Iraq, and as is being done by the Civilian JTF in Mauduguri.