Fayemi endorses Oyebanji for second term
By Jeffrey Agbo
Immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, has backed his successor Governor Biodun Oyebanji for a second term.
Fayemi spoke at an APC stakeholders’ meeting in his Isan Ekiti hometown on Thursday evening.
He said that federal and state lawmakers should work for Oyebanji’s second-term bid as a form of continuous assessment.
Fayemi, who stated that leaders of the party were behind Oyebanji, said, “If those in the National and State Assemblies want to get the same treatment we leaders are giving the governor, they should go and work at home. If leaders in their districts and constituencies tell us they are capable and worthy, we will make decisions for them.
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“But let me make it clear here and ask you to inform those who are not here that there is nothing like an automatic ticket for our National and State Assembly members. There is nothing like that. I am speaking on behalf of former governor Niyi Adebayo – both of us are the leaders in the APC.
“Let the lawmakers go back home and work for Oyebanji, and that will count as continuous assessment. I hope they will pass the test.”
Fayemi further said, “I am not a leader that will work and come back to destroy it. What will I say that Governor Oyebanji has not done in the last two years across all sectors?
“I know some people like to benefit from crises, and they want to create issues between me and the governor. I know some people are still aggrieved that the governor has not done enough for them.
“We have serious work at hand. By early next year, the Independent National Electoral Commission will announce the date for the Ekiti governorship poll. I have seen a lot of people clamouring and declaring support for Oyebanji to run again.
“Interestingly, those who were not here when I first picked Oyebanji in 2022 are already agitating for the governor’s return. These people were the ones who insisted Oyebanji should not be made governor in 2022.
“These people left our party to contest in another party and are now back in the APC, championing the re-election of the governor. We are watching them, and we thank God they are back in the fold, but tell them that they will go and queue in line because it is some of us who supported Oyebanji when they left the party. Let me say that our president is behind Governor Oyebanji,” Fayemi said.
