Oluyede also assured that the PDP in Ekiti remains intact, united, and stronger, despite Fayose’s alleged anti-party activities.
By Kehinde Okeowo
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the upcoming gubernatorial election in Ekiti State, Dr. Wole Oluyede, has hailed his party’s decision to expel the state’s former governor, Ayodele Fayose.
He made his views known recently while addressing journalists after the party’s stakeholders’ meeting in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.
Oluyede, an Australia-based medical doctor, described the expulsion as “good riddance to bad rubbish.” He added that the party will not allow Fayose to destroy the structure being built by its leaders to ensure the PDP wins the 2026 governorship election in Ekiti.
He urged the former governor to take responsibility for his role in undermining the party over the past three years.
Oluyede further assured that the PDP in the state remains intact, united, and stronger than before, despite Fayose’s alleged anti-party activities.
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He, however, called on the Tunji Odeyemi-led State Executive to set up a reconciliation committee to address aggrieved aspirants who lost the primary election, as well as party members who are disgruntled for one reason or another.
Speaking on the crisis rocking the party at the national level, he insisted that the ongoing issues will not affect the party’s chances in the state, arguing that politics remains a local affair.
Oluyede said, “Parties always have issues anywhere in the world, that’s why they are called political parties, but I have no issues with the national crisis. I am not running for national office; all I need is Ekiti people behind me, and that’s what we are going to get.
“If you have been a leader for eight years and people depend on you, you shouldn’t sell them short. He (Fayose) has a choice; he can come back, and we will welcome him.
“But if he chooses to stay out and say he will bulldoze the party, we will not allow him. If he throws dirt at us, we will send it back. Nobody builds a house and then brings a bulldozer to destroy it.
“Thank God, he hasn’t been able to pull us down. We are building. We are getting stronger. There is no faction in this party.”
Fayose, the Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike, suspended PDP National Secretary Samuel Anyanwu, and other party chieftains were recently expelled from the party during its national convention in Ibadan, Oyo State.
