WHY FAYOSE WANTS FAYEMI TO BE MINISTER.

The Chief Press Secretary to Ekiti State Governor,
Mr Idowu Adelusi, has said his boss will never
allow the opposition All Progressives Congress
(APC) or any group to draw him into politics of
bitterness or to take vengeance on anybody.
Speaking in an interview in Ado-Ekiti on Friday,
the CPS said his boss was of the belief that
vengeance belongs to God and that when God has
vindicated someone, the person needs not to fight
for himself again.
He was reacting to comments by some APC
members that Governor Ayodele Fayose had no
choice other than to support the nomination of
former Governor Kayode Fayemi as a minister
from the state.
Governor Fayose had two days ago called on
members of his party, the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) in the National Assembly to support
the candidacy of Fayemi on the floor of the Senate
when the screening of ministerial nominees starts
on Tuesday.
This is just as the Presidency, through the Special
Adviser to the President on National Assembly
Matters, Senator Ita Enang, on Friday asked the
nominees to commence the lobbying of senators
from their states so as to have a smooth sail
during screening.
Speaking, Adelusi said “I hope people running
their mouths are aware of the rule of the Senate
that at least two senators from s nominee’s state
must support such nominee. But apart from that,
the governor’s type of politics is devoid of
bitterness.
“Since Governor Ayodele Fayose came into office,
by his deeds, he has not discriminated against
even people who are his sworn enemies. The man
he appointed the Solicitor-General of the state
was the man that was used by those in
government then to prosecute him over phantom
murder charges.
“Whether anybody likes it or not, God has made
him the leader of the state now, in spite of the
scheming, plots and gang up of some people.
When God fights your battle for you, what else do
you need to do other than to watch?
“Fayose’s kind of politics is not vengeance as it is
being played by Ekiti APC which is very crude.
Their own mindset is that if something is not
theirs, it cannot be for somebody else and they
will try all means possible to destroy it.
“Fayose is starting a new platform of politics
without bitterness, that era of using petitions to
block ministerial appointment is gone.
“If there is a fellow who should be vengeful, it is
Fayose because he is the one political
detractors did all they could to destroy. But since
God is not part of their evil agenda, Fayose is
governor again. I can tell you that if Fayose has
not intervened, the Senate will not approve the
nomination of Fayemi.
“But we will not give back to them what they gave
us, rather we will teach them how politics should
be played,” he said.