FAYOSE IS JUST A NUISANCE - BAMIDELE

The candidate of the Labour Party in the June 21, 2014 governorship election in Ekiti State, Hon. Michael Bamidele, has warned Governor Ayodele Fayose against making some unguarded statement.

Bamidele cautioned the PDP governor to stop what he termed ‘one-day-one-trouble style of governance’.
He also warned the politician to stop his constant attacks on the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Major General Muhammadu Buhari.
Bamidele, in a statement on Tuesday, noted that Governor Fayose was dragging the name and image of the state in the mud, a situation he said the people hated.
The lawmaker, who is representing Ekiti Central 1 in the House of Representatives, urged the governor to emulate reputable indigenes of the state such as Chief Afe Babalola, Prof. Akin Oyebode, Pa Ayo Fasanmi, Sir Remi Omotoso, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, Prof. Jide Oluwasanmi, Justice Ademola Ajakaiye (rtd.), Prof. Tunde Adeniran and Prof. Babalola Borisade, whom he said were working tirelessly to positively boost the image of the state.
Bamidele added: “Even if, according to Governor Fayose, General Buhari had visited a hospital during his foreign trip, the reasonable question to ask, I would think, is whether or not General Buhari deserves rest or even a medical check-up after a full-fledged and most rigorous (over 30 days) campaign during which he did not miss a single rally.”
The lawmaker said it was unfortunate that at a time President Goodluck Jonathan was doing all he could to convince Nigerians and members of the international community that he was committed to the survival of the nation’s democracy, Fayose was busy throwing tantrums to the opposition.
He said: “Just like President Jonathan has a right to contest and legitimately expect to win, he has equally assured all and sundry that if he loses the election, he will honourably hand over to the winner, making it clear that neither a military nor an interim regime would be an acceptable alternative.
“If President Jonathan is speaking in this parlance and Governor Fayose is busy abusing former President Olusegun Obasanjo while denigrating the age and person of Gen. Buhari to the extent of wishing him dead, then surely Governor Fayose must be weeping more than the bereaved. And when a sympathiser is weeping more than the bereaved, there is definitely a cause for suspicion.
“Let Governor Fayose call himself to order. Let him leave Gen. Buhari alone and come up with a more positive and decent manner of adding value to our democracy and politics. Right now, he is a like cancer to our body politic.
“Let him stop dragging the name and image of Ekiti in the mire. Ekiti people abhor hate politics and if even Abuja would disown Gov. Fayose’s hate campaign style, then the extent of damage he is doing to the Jonathan campaign in Ekiti State is better left in the realm of imagination.”
He said: “No decent Ekiti man or woman, either in the private or public sector, and no Ekiti politician, either in PDP, APC, Labour Party or any other political party can be proud of how Governor Fayose has carried himself since the beginning of this campaign or how he has continued to portray the image of Ekiti as a community of people with integrity deficit”.