Fayose Differs With PDP Over Eligibility Of APC Candidates


Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state seems to be on a collision course with his party, the Peoples Democratic Party as on Wednesday, November 18, he disagreed with his party over the integrity of candidates fielded by the APC for the Kogi and Bayelsa states gubernatorial elections.


Olisa Metuh, the PDP spokesman, had earlier accused the APC of presenting candidates facing corruptions charges, stating that his party never presented someone with a questionable character in the 16 years it was in power, Premium Times reports.
Commenting further on the credibility of APC candidates, the PDP spokesman said that in saner climes political parties will not present candidates subject to corruption charges.

“We have never fielded any candidate facing corruption charge as governor. Elsewhere, political parties take exception to fielding people with corruption charges except if politically motivated like in the case of Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state. No party has ever fielded corrupt individuals for political offices like the APC,” Metuh said.
He disclosed that his party is already compiling a list of all APC governors-elect and candidates that are currently facing corruption charges and would make the list available to Nigerians.
However, Fayose in a statement took a different turn from his party’s position saying that Sylva and Audu are qualified to contest the election which is a sharp contrast to the PDP’s position.
He added that they remain innocent until they are proven guilty.
“I wish to state clearly that Alhaji Abubakar Audu has the right to contest,” Fayose said while dismissing a statement credited to him in which he allegedly doubted the eligibility of the APC candidates.

Fayose explained that he did not make the statement that Audu’s corruption case in court disqualified him from contesting, adding that the speech he made at the grand finale of the PDP campaign in Lokoja was based on the need for free and fair elections.
“That statement that he cannot contest was not made by me. What I said in Lokoja has nothing to do with Alhaji Audu and I am not contesting his eligibility. Alhaji Audu is my former colleague and I have a lot of respect for him. In law, every man is assumed innocent until proven otherwise by a law court. I equally went through a similar experience‎, I couldn’t have made such comment,” the governor said.

In a related development, Governor Fayose had explained why he was absent during the PDP national conference which was held to rebrand and reposition the main opposition party.

The governor said he could not attend the national conference because he was observing three days fasting and prayers ahead of his 55th birthday.  

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