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Senator Olujimi To Fayose: Nobody Owns Ekiti PDP

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August 9, 2020
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Ayodele Fayose with Senator Olujimi

Ayodele Fayose (left) with Senator Olujimi

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The Senator representing Ekiti South at the National Assembly, Chief Biodun Olujimi has dismissed the claim that she was trying to wrestle the Ekiti State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the hand of former governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose. She insisted that nobody owns the party.

The former Senate Minority Leader, who stated this in Ado Ekiti at the weekend during a chat with journalists, said that the camp of Fayose was trying to take advantage of her gender to sideline her from the management team of the party, even when she has given her best to the service of both the party and the state, vowing to fight for her right.

Fayose’s media aide, who earlier spoke on behalf of the former governor, had in a statement on Olujimi said: “We don’t have time for a loser who is being used by APC to destabilize the Ekiti PDP.

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“If she wants to leave PDP, she can leave. She has the right to ventilate her frustration having failed to take over PDP so that she can become the party flag bearer in 2022.”

Olujimi who said that leadership could only be earned and not served aa la carte said that she was prevailed upon by some concerned members of the party to provide leadership that was lacking in Ekiti PDP.

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“I believe it is what we do that will make people believe in us. What happened is that some people came together and said they wanted a new leadership. I didn’t compel anyone. They came and said they needed a breath of fresh air, a new beginning and inclusiveness and then we started a movement which gathered so much momentum to such an extent that they believe that we are eroding the ground upon which they, the former governor’s men, stand,” she said.

She wondered why a man that has been governor for 8 years would be preoccupied with wrestling powers with ordinary Senator.

“The bottom line is that if you have done well, you won’t need to wrestle at all. Fayose that I worked with and I had great respect for? How did he lose it? He needs to answer that.

“What is happening is a misconception which came about because of the belief that one person owns the party and the other person is trying to wrestle the party from the owner. But that is not the situation; the situation on ground is that everybody in the party including the most lowly joined the party because there is free entry and free exit.

“And so, nobody owns the party. Yes there are some individuals who are established in the party and who are parts of the management team. As former governor, Ayodele Fayose is one of those. But to exclude every one of us from the management team is one of the major issues at the front burner.

“When we held the congress, of course if we hold the congresses hundred times, the group which I and others lead, will always win 100 per cent. So we had a congress which was marred with irregularities.

“Can you imagine how I struggled to get my mandate back and went back to the senate and one person will sit and compile lists of the ward executives of the six local governments that I represent in the senate I think that is not fair for people to treat my gender as a woman and think that I can’t fight. We are quite fighters, I will not take that and the people I represent’ won’t take that,” she added.

On the allegation that she was scheming for the 2022 governorship, she said that there was nothing that precludes her from participating in the governorship election of her state. “Nothing at all. I have paid my dues and done what I am supposed to do in Ekiti. I am eminently qualified to participate. Don’t forget that I participated in the 2018 governorship election.”

On the claims that she was on her way to the All Progressives Congress (APC), she said she remained a PDP member.,

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